[geeklog-users] Comment Spammers

Zach Shelton mail at zachofalltrades.net
Tue May 25 18:05:15 EDT 2004


just an idea:

Does there exist a registry of porn site URLs similar to the ones
maintained for spam blacklists? If so, then it would be possible to check
against such a list and reject any comment that contains a link to a site
on the list...


Ray Benjamin said:

> I'm having problems with someone or some group posting comments to

> articles on my site that are just links to porn sites. It's not really

> the kind of image I want for my site. I'm trying to find the right way

> to handle the problem. I expect to get more traffic in a few months and

> I'm hoping it will be impractical to police every comment by hand.

>

> At first I disabled comments except from users that were logged in, but

> I've found that discourages a lot of people from commenting. It might

> be nice if there were a filter plugin that would allow me to set up

> keywords and phrases that would cause a comment to be rejected.

>

> Does anyone know if something like this is under development? If not I

> might take a crack at it myself.

>

> Thanks,

> Ray

>

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