Comments on: God I hate spammers http://www.mailund.dk/index.php/2010/07/02/god-i-hate-spammers/ Computer science, bioinformatics, genetics, and everything in between Fri, 2 Nov 2012 14:52:32 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Thomas Mailund http://www.mailund.dk/index.php/2010/07/02/god-i-hate-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-25691 Thomas Mailund Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:45:12 +0000 http://www.mailund.dk/?p=2189#comment-25691 Even with Akismet up and running again I still got mostly SPAM and not HAM. You just didn't see it because I have turned moderation on. Anyway, I decided to do add a CAPTCHA and found a plugin for that. If it works, I think I'll turn moderation off, because I don't really want to go in and moderate all the time, but until I know it works I'll stick with moderation... Even with Akismet up and running again I still got mostly SPAM and not HAM. You just didn't see it because I have turned moderation on. Anyway, I decided to do add a CAPTCHA and found a plugin for that. If it works, I think I'll turn moderation off, because I don't really want to go in and moderate all the time, but until I know it works I'll stick with moderation...

]]> By: Michael Knudsen http://www.mailund.dk/index.php/2010/07/02/god-i-hate-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-24687 Michael Knudsen Sat, 03 Jul 2010 10:26:32 +0000 http://www.mailund.dk/?p=2189#comment-24687 RSI break => Lot's of spam to be removed manually => More RSI and an even longer break => Even more spam to take care of => Even more RSI ... hmmmm ... this doesn't look good! RSI break => Lot's of spam to be removed manually => More RSI and an even longer break => Even more spam to take care of => Even more RSI ... hmmmm ... this doesn't look good!

]]> By: amix http://www.mailund.dk/index.php/2010/07/02/god-i-hate-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-24065 amix Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:19:45 +0000 http://www.mailund.dk/?p=2189#comment-24065 You could try to use a captcha. My visual captcha ( http://amix.dk/blog/post/19338 ) works wonders and works a lot better than Akismet. You could try to use a captcha. My visual captcha ( http://amix.dk/blog/post/19338 ) works wonders and works a lot better than Akismet.

]]> By: Thomas Mailund http://www.mailund.dk/index.php/2010/07/02/god-i-hate-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-23815 Thomas Mailund Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:41:18 +0000 http://www.mailund.dk/?p=2189#comment-23815 Yes, I <em>could</em> do that, but that would be awfully slow and inefficient as well... If I could log into the sql server directly I could just delete the last week of comments as well, that would be a nicer approach (although something could be lost it is worth it to get rid of the spam), but I need to contact the guy hosting my server to get access there for that, and I'm not even sure I would know how to do it, so I'll probably just end up deleting the comments manually. If the filter is working again now, I can do it over a couple of days and just not let new spam flood in in the mean time. Yes, I could do that, but that would be awfully slow and inefficient as well...

If I could log into the sql server directly I could just delete the last week of comments as well, that would be a nicer approach (although something could be lost it is worth it to get rid of the spam), but I need to contact the guy hosting my server to get access there for that, and I'm not even sure I would know how to do it, so I'll probably just end up deleting the comments manually. If the filter is working again now, I can do it over a couple of days and just not let new spam flood in in the mean time.

]]> By: Thomas Widmann http://www.mailund.dk/index.php/2010/07/02/god-i-hate-spammers/comment-page-1/#comment-23795 Thomas Widmann Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:18:53 +0000 http://www.mailund.dk/?p=2189#comment-23795 You could export all of your blog to XML, delete all posts from the blog, change all the comments' status to pending or something in the XML, then reimport the modified XML file. I haven't tried it, but that ought to work, no? You could export all of your blog to XML, delete all posts from the blog, change all the comments' status to pending or something in the XML, then reimport the modified XML file. I haven't tried it, but that ought to work, no?

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