Comment Guard Pro in Final Stages of DevelopmentNovember 4th, 2007 Comment Guard Pro is finally turning out to be the uber anti-comment spam protection plugin I dreamt of; everything you would ever want in a comment spam protection plugin and more, much more. The plugin itself is composed of several modules, each of which can be individually enabled / disabled, tweaked and configured all from the user interface.
Comment Guard Pro: Over 1 Million Comment Spam BlockedDecember 20th, 2007 Ever since we installed Comment Guard Pro, anti comment-spam plugin on this blog, it stopped over 1 millon spam comments (1001011 spam comments were blocked by Angsuman's Comment Guard plugin in 335 days 8 hours 38 minutes. 99.338 % of the comments received during this time were spam.) so far (look in the right sidebar for latest stats).
Comment Guard Pro (WordPress Comment Spam Protection Plugin) Released for Internal TestingNovember 30th, 2007 I like to say that Comment Guard Pro will be the final plugin you will ever need for WordPress comment spam protection. It contains 18 pluglets for protecting you from comment spam, an open API for you to write your own pluglets, detailed live statistics (AJAX updated) and more.
Experimental Comment Spam Prevention System for WordPress BlogsJanuary 17th, 2007 After being thoroughly fed-up with the state of WordPress comment spam protection, I have decided to solve the comment spam problem in WordPress blogs once and for all. I have installed an experimental commenting system which is designed to completely stop (read 100%) robotic spam (spam generated by bots and not humans) in all my blogs and with no (read 0%) false positives.
Abusing Comment Name field for SEO.. No SirSeptember 9th, 2007 Sometimes I see comments where the name of the person is not really his name but a popular keyword which obviously links to his website. While I understand the need to have link-love for useful comments and even encourage it, the name field shouldn't be abused by using keywords like "Web Banner Design", for example.
Comment SpamFebruary 6th, 2004 After some deliberation, and seeing others, I decided to leave the commenting section on my blog un-moderated. Today I was mildly surprised to find almost all my posts had a comment to it.
Spam Me Ye Comment Spammers!August 26th, 2007 I have opened this blog for testing. Now any spammer can get to my moderation queue.
Comment Guard Pro Beta 0.3 ReleasedFebruary 22nd, 2007 Comment Guard 0.3 Beta is a bug fix release. Very occassionally the plugin would request a valid commenter to submit his comment again.
Bad Karma by Spam Karma FilterDecember 24th, 2004 I have been unable to submit a comment in a site with spam karma enabled. So I wrote a comment in the spam karma plugin site.
WordPress Comment Spamming - Over 50% Contributed by Top 100 IP AddressesMay 29th, 2006 I briefly reviewed my corpus of 4569 comment spams in my Akismet queue. Of them over 53% of the spam has been contributed by Top 100 spamming IP addresses.
Recipe for a comment spam free site for WordPress UsersDecember 24th, 2004 My recipe for getting rid of comment spam once and for all:
Install WordPress 1.2.1 or later. Install ImageAuth hack
Go to Options Tab.
1/2 Million+ Spam Comments Blocked By Comment Guard Pro; Zero False PositiveSeptember 28th, 2007 508903 spam comments were blocked by Angsuman's Comment Guard plugin in 253 days 21 hours 54 minutes. 99.503% of the comments received during this time were spam.
Comment Guard Plugin Updated with New FeaturesAugust 29th, 2007 We have the Comment Guard plugin on all of our blogs with the latest version. Comment Guard is our fool-proof solution to eliminate comment spam from automated bots, which constitute over 90% of comments.
To "nofollow" or not, that is the question...January 24th, 2005 A discussion on rel="nofollow" technique versus CAPTCHA
Close to 10, 000 Comments; Mystery Gift for 10, 000th Commenter!September 23rd, 2008 This blog is actively protected by Comment Guard Pro, WordPress Comment Spam protection plugin for pro-bloggers and semi-pro bloggers. We don't allow any spam, even apparently innocuous ones in this blog.
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December 7th, 2004 at 4:23 am
One way to drastically reduce the level of comment spam is to move the comment-posting URL. A lot of spammers just use a script that blindly posts to “wp-comments-post.php”.
December 7th, 2004 at 6:28 am
I agree. I also heard that it (changing the name of the wp-comments-post.php file) has been rather successful in combating spam. However as you know it is clearly a stopgap solution. I can easily cook up a spam script in 15 minutes which browses links from the front page and then submits the form, as a human would, from the child (post) page. As stupid as their script is now they can easily adapt to this new restraint. And as our experience with email spam has shown they are very resourceful.
March 11th, 2005 at 5:43 pm
Bye bye comment spam!
Finally I took the step to get rid of comment spam without time consuming moderation, which I have been doing so far.
My quest first started with a simple solution - moderation of all comments.
Recently I started getting over 600 spams daily! Thi…