New, more sinister, comment spam trend

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1. Amiya Gupta (3 comments.) says:

   9/1/2005 at 9:47 am

   Agreed… googling “Respekt! Ein wirlich gelungene Seite” returns 42K results :p
2. Ozh (88 comments.) says:

   9/1/2005 at 11:15 am

   Sending comments on old posts to the moderation queue : Auto Moderate Comments
   (I believe this is better than simply *closing* comments on old posts)
3. Ozh (88 comments.) says:

   9/1/2005 at 11:19 am

   On a side note, I’ll add that I’ve been hit by this new kind of spam today, and the first ones let me quite perplex before I understood what it was all about

   The sad thing is they are going to be very difficult to filter out (plus, those spammers seem to be a bit less dumb than most and can handle Bad Behavior)
4. Matt Van Dusen (1 comments.) says:

   9/1/2005 at 12:06 pm

   Seems like an even better reason to use Spam Karma 2.

   Unfortunately, I’ve been starting to see some spam appear on my blog, but only because my theme is not completely compatible with 1.5.
5. char (1 comments.) says:

   9/1/2005 at 7:34 pm

   I have all of my comments come into my email and I check it regularly so that I am aware of all commenters. Thanks for the FYI!!
6. Justin Kozuch (1 comments.) says:

   9/1/2005 at 7:46 pm

   One guy left an interesting comment that looked very legitimate, until he added in a url at the end. I just removed the url, and kep the comment in place.

   Thanks for the comment!

   Justin
7. Geren (5 comments.) says:

   9/1/2005 at 9:15 pm

   One thing I noticed on my site is that the comment SPAM was pretty much limited to three or four older posts. I’ve locked down the comments on those posts, and haven’t had a comment SPAM hit my site is several days (as opposed to the several a day those posts were getting).

   I have comment moderation enabled on my site, but, once someone has commented and been approved, I assume they’re okay, and don’t moderate their comments, unless links are contained in the comment.

   I also receive all comments posted to the site via e-mail, so that I can monitor the comment posting activity, and act accordingly. So far, that’s been fairly effective here.
8. Amiya Gupta (3 comments.) says:

   9/2/2005 at 7:21 am

   Justin: Unless you have your site configured to moderate every single comment, that may not work out so well. The spammer is now in your “white list” and can post comments without approval from now on.
9. web designer (1 comments.) says:

   9/2/2005 at 7:29 am

   i agree with Ozh
10. Dave (5 comments.) says:

    9/2/2005 at 10:58 am

    I agree with your point whole heartedly. I have a blog with moderate traffic (which I sometimes don’t post to for a week or so at a time). I don’t get alot of comment traffic and keep the settings set to moderate every comment. In the past I have gotten an occassional spam (maybe once every few weeks) which I promtly deleted. But last weekend I got barraged by comment spam. It got to be too much for me to moderate so I started looking for a spam plugin. I ended up installing Spam Karma 2 and it caught 116 spam comments in the following day or so alone. Since then the spam comment traffic has stopped. I’m thinking that I was targeted as a test blog for the scheme you mentioned and they left me alone after 3 days of intense commenting when they realized that none of their comments actually made it through moderation/filtering.
11. Elliott Back (15 comments.) says:

    9/12/2005 at 12:53 pm

    Any protection can be overcome, so I just keep evolving my flagship antispam plugin to cope. WP-Hashcash now blocks IPs after 4 failed computations, so brute force gives a .01% chance to learn the secret code with the integer settings I’m using. I have a few improvements in mind in the future, but for now this will do!
12. NYCO says:

    5/15/2006 at 10:17 am

    Ummm… why doesn’t popular blogging software give you the ability to “mass close” your posts to comments? Why the heck should I have to page through months of posts, closing them to comments one by one?
13. Bernard (1 comments.) says:

    3/18/2007 at 9:38 pm

    No wonder I was getting a surge in spam the past week. I use akismet.. sometimes it eats up legitimate comments too so i usually monitor the comments marked as spam. But now it’s become a chore to scan through the 10 pages of spam everyday. Such a hassle.

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1. tony street dot com says:

   9/11/2005 at 4:23 pm

   Spammers on my site??

   Well, I knew it would happen sometime….
   There was a comment a while back that had me questioning its intentions. It was on this post on my blog. Because of the, well, wierdness, of it, I took out the link that the person had put there.
   Apperen…