Comment flood prevention – a really simple solution

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1. craig (19 comments.) says:

   7/13/2004 at 9:01 pm

   Mark,

   MooKitty has a plugin for comment spamming that sets up a mass editing mode to very easily get rid of the crap being sent your way. It also writes entries automagically to the spam filter list and will even ensure that there are no duplicate entries. It’s very slick.

   http://mookitty.co.uk/devblog/
2. Mark (7 comments.) says:

   7/14/2004 at 8:41 am

   I might look into that tonight!
3. Matt (64 comments.) says:

   7/7/2004 at 12:07 pm

   Every flood I’ve gotten has been through dozens (if not hundreds) of anonymous proxies so IP based throttling is useless.
4. Mark (7 comments.) says:

   7/7/2004 at 12:17 pm

   The throttling is (meant to be) not IP based, it is based on the last write to the comment table. So, the part that I forgot to mention was that I have changed the MySql call as well. I will fix the post when I get home.
5. Blowy (1 comments.) says:

   6/12/2007 at 7:16 am

   And why you are not using any spam prevention plugins to decrease a number of malicious comments? except of akismet of course
   • Jeyson (1 comments.) says:

     3/1/2010 at 4:27 am

     Akismet sometimes deletes good comments. It is possible to use simply email verification. I use this plugin on the blogs – http://wordpress.org/extend/pl.....il-verify/
6. Cadmium Plating (1 comments.) says:

   8/6/2007 at 7:11 pm

   We have some heavy spamming going on for just one of our pages on one site. The same bot tries to hit the same form over and over with the same spam every 30 seconds or so for a few hours. I think it is stuck? Strange
7. Peter (1 comments.) says:

   10/13/2009 at 8:53 pm

   If the comment throttling is not IP based, what happens if 2 legitimate comments are made within your limit? Even a nice error message can be frustrating if the error message is saying “please wait 60 seconds and then try again”
8. Stefan Nilsson says:

   4/27/2011 at 7:34 am

   This is actually a terrific idea even though some people who find your site for the first time might end up in the filter with honest intention. With that said, those are so few compared with how many spammers there are out there. Have you thought about releasing this as a plugin instead of a short code? I’m sure it would get attention and get you some new readers as well as backlinks.
9. Mikael U (3 comments.) says:

   12/21/2011 at 5:10 pm

   On thing you can do to prevent spam is to have ha hidden field that IS filled with data. IF any spambot for some reason do attack you site it will most likely alter the field (inputing garbage) and if it (the field) does not match agains the set data you can trash the comment.

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1. [bronski.net] says:

   7/7/2004 at 5:24 pm

   Bitte warten…
   Mark Gosh behindert Kommentarspamflutwellen, so wie auch ich neulich einen gehabt hatte, mittels einer nur ganz kleinen Änderung: er verlängert einfach die Wartezeit, bis wieder ein Kommentar abgegeben werden kann. Das sind nur Änderunge…