The Cynic Says……

Wow… now I’m getting comment spam from someone spamming beastiality, incest, rape and other stupid shit. Thankfully I have a huge list of spam words that keeps them from ever being displayed on my blog. They go into a nice little queue and all I do is make two clicks to delete them all. Takes about 15 seconds and I’m done. I’ve also managed to increase the time required between consecutive comment posts to 5 minutes since they seem to make about 1-2 comments a minute. The spammers seem to use scripts and open proxies to do their work, so IP banning doesn’t do much good at all. Luckily wordpress has a pretty nice comment spam filtering system. Also, there are quite a few pretty good comment spam reducing plugins out there for wordpress as well. Kitten’s Spamwords seems to be the most popular one to use at the moment, but only seems to work on comments that have already made it into your blog. The good thing is that you can go into mass edit mode and delete the ones that are spam… then once you do that, any comment that looks similar to the ones you’ve deleted as spam get dumped into your moderation queue. Alas, permanently denying them access to your blog doesn’t seem possible at the moment, but this will do fine for now.