[geeklog-users] Comment Spammers

Tony Bibbs tony at tonybibbs.com
Tue May 25 20:20:23 EDT 2004


That's how the Movable Type implementation that I mentioned works (I think)

--Tony

Zach Shelton wrote:


>just an idea:

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>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...

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>Ray Benjamin said:

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>>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.

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>>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.

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

>>might take a crack at it myself.

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>>Thanks,

>> Ray

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