And to fight spam…

I have installed (thanks to my wordpress.com API key) Akismet. So not I have Spam Karma and Akismet running, which should also take care of trackback spam, most of which slips right through SK’s filters, though I suspect Dr Dave simply hasn’t written SK to take care of trackback spam. Edit: I suspected wrong, as Dr Dave maintains he did indeed write SK to take care TB spam.

Sheesh. I still fail to see who actually buys anything presented in a spam email anyways.

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Posted June 21st, 2006 in main. Tagged: , .

9 comments:

  1. dr Dave:

    I suspect you may have somehow missed something with your install if you are noticing any spam TB/PB going through SK2. It *has* indeed been designed with TBs (as well as regular comments) in mind and has no difficulties whatsoever stopping them…

    Cheers

    June 22nd, 2006 at 1:53 pm
  2. daniel:

    Huh. I can’t imagine what the problem could be… TB spam shows up with semi-regularity in the approved bin, almost all of it from Blogger accounts. I’ll have to do some digging and see if I can’t come up with a reason these aren’t being caught.

    *dan

    June 22nd, 2006 at 2:46 pm
  3. Roger:

    I don’t get any trackback spam through my SK2.

    Good job, Dan, I comment from a geek celeb!

    June 23rd, 2006 at 8:04 am
  4. dr Dave:

    Hmn. Blogger is a problem. In fact, it’s should have been solved in the latest beta, which I have been too busy lately to switch over to production.
    Please give it a try:
    http://wp-plugins.net/sk2/sk23_beta.zip
    and do let me know if it keeps not working the way it should (you *may* need to have it re-init its tables in the Advanced Options, but I don’t think it should be necessary. try without first)…

    June 24th, 2006 at 4:26 am
  5. dr Dave:

    And I believe there’s also a problem with your template (seems to reload pages in a weird way) and SK2’s captcha page… Not quite sure what’s going on though….

    June 24th, 2006 at 4:29 am
  6. Geof F. Morris:

    Dave: I figured it out, I think. SK2 is smacking these Blog*spot-based TBs down appropriately when the URL doesn’t reference the site, but when the granularity check is done on the URL for the Snowball Effect plugin, all of Dan’s commentors who use Blog*spot end up giving the spam a boost.

    Does it make sense to not have TBs do the Snowball Effect check?

    June 24th, 2006 at 10:23 am
  7. dr Dave:

    Geof:

    Well, Snowball checks still makes sense on TB (say: a spammer goes the length of actually listing your site in his spam post, then goes about hammering every single post in your blog… you’d want the Snowball plugin to catch him).

    What isn’t good, though, is the Snowball check using other legit Blogspot URL to appraise the spammer’s own spam Blogspot URL…

    This was a problem found a long time ago, I fixed it in the latest beta (see URL above) and have been planning to release a final version for over two months now. Just haven’t had time yet (also wanted to add a few other meaningful features)… Hopefully by next month when other activities calm down a little.

    In a perfect world, Blogspot would clean its own doorstep and ensures there’s no splogs littering their service… making spam fighting all the easier…

    June 25th, 2006 at 4:29 am
  8. Geof F. Morris:

    Dave: You make an excellent point, and I guess you have to have Snowball work both ways.

    I will check the beta out; I have one site that requires registration and, as such, the only spam that slips through is TrackBack; it’s the best one I’ve got. I’ve got two or three other places to try it out. You know that I support ya, so I’ll see what I can do to help you test. :D

    June 25th, 2006 at 11:50 am
  9. Pozycjonowanie:

    Someone else below asked this already about antispam scripts.
    I am getting nailed with Spam on my website mails and in our blog website - now its offline too

    much spam. Is there anyway to stop this? If not, there really isn’t any point in leaving it up

    and active. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks for help, Keep up the good work. Greetings from Poland

    December 12th, 2006 at 9:24 am

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