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[web_designer]

recently, i have a lot of spams in my blog. first i didn't care a lot but after that it getting so annoying. therefore a friend suggest me to use akismet plugin that will help me to avoiding spam.

and it did, it works great. but after a while i noticed that it acting weird. the spams counter in my blog shows a different number of spams than it actually is. for example, the spam counter in my blog shows "45" spams where in wordpress dashboard it is only "23". and i couldn't see a lot of comments like before, i wonder if the plugin affect something. i tired to change the plugin configurations but there isn't much to do since the configuration is so limit.

anyway, if there is anyone can suggest me a better way to avoid spams i will be appreciated for him. thanks in advance.

[anwiii]

ban the ip's. you will notice that spammers post more than once so when you start banning the ip's, you will notice a big difference.

[TomCol]

IP bans work to an extent but a determined spammer can easily use a proxy, or just use different computers at school. Have you considered using a members system to comment? That way you can validate using emails and it has a number of benefits:
- You can allow only one account per IP
- You only allow only one account per email
- Even if you hash the passwords, you can still check for identical hashes, and identify alternate accounts.

Also, what are the spammers saying? If you can, you might want to put a profanity filter and something to detect random or repeated letters.

Good luck with it.

[web_designer]

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IP bans work to an extent but a determined spammer can easily use a proxy, or just use different computers at school. Have you considered using a members system to comment? That way you can validate using emails and it has a number of benefits:
- You can allow only one account per IP
- You only allow only one account per email
- Even if you hash the passwords, you can still check for identical hashes, and identify alternate accounts.

Also, what are the spammers saying? If you can, you might want to put a profanity filter and something to detect random or repeated letters.

Good luck with it.

thank you for your reply, but i finished school long time ago
and here i am talking about my blog, powered by wordpress. i have annoying spammers in my blog.

[truefusion]

The best way to avoid spam is to not allow users to post. That is the simplest solution (that no one wants to take for obvious reasons), no other solution simpler than that. You can do many things to reduce spam, but that will never stop spam unlike the simplest solution. Spam is unavoidable when posting powers are given to the public. Even on my website i get people recommending me random URLs. Some don't have a random pattern to the URLs, so i block those; but some are in the form of aefzsdfklajsdf.com. There is no regex i can think of that can prevent those without preventing every other URL.

[TomCol]

web_designer, on 27 May 2010 - 01:58 PM, said:

thank you for your reply, but i finished school long time ago

Sorry, I meant if the spammer goes to school, they can just evade the IP ban by using a different computer.

I've never used wordpress so I don't know what you can do, but then I would code my own blog system anyway!

Edited by TomCol, 27 May 2010 - 06:21 PM.

[web_designer]

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The best way to avoid spam is to not allow users to post. That is the simplest solution (that no one wants to take for obvious reasons), no other solution simpler than that.

well, i do. the only one who post in my blog is me . i get spams from the comments, i don't know why these visitors bother themselves to post such long and useless comments just to annoy me. therefore i need a solution. thank you for your reply truefusion.

[Little Asterisk]

@web_designer

I don't know if you've read this, but the wordpress codex (http://codex.wordpre...ng_Comment_Spam) has some interesting ideas on stopping spam.

Also, http://www.catswhoco...am-in-wordpress has some of the "classic" ideas that were already posted on this forum.

Finally, five general tips n' tricks about the security of your WP webblog: http://www.wptavern....ely-dont-follow.

Since I'm also (slowly) starting a site powered by Wordpress, it's a real heaven asking me for Wordpress links from anywhere.

Hope that helps

[web_designer]

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I don't know if you've read this, but the wordpress codex (http://codex.wordpre...ng_Comment_Spam) has some interesting ideas on stopping spam.

Also, http://www.catswhoco...am-in-wordpress has some of the "classic" ideas that were already posted on this forum.

Finally, five general tips n' tricks about the security of your WP webblog: http://www.wptavern....ely-dont-follow.

Since I'm also (slowly) starting a site powered by Wordpress, it's a real heaven asking me for Wordpress links from anywhere.

Hope that helps

thanks you a lot little asterisk, very useful links. i am really appreciated.

[Asad1]

Check your site correctly.