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2:08 pm
July 23, 2011
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Buck Inspire
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Hi all,
For the past week, I had one specific website blast all my comments with SPAM. It's being tagged, but I have to dump him out every day. How do you guys deal with a comment SPAM bot? Ugh. 
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2:52 pm
July 23, 2011
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Hunter @financiallyc
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I'm going through the same thing. I manually delete hundreds of spam comments each week. I need to get around to installing a "you're human" check box before the comments will stick.
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5:24 pm
July 23, 2011
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mbhunter
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I highly recommend adding a CAPTCHA to your comment form.
Even though you're moderating things, you're still letting spam comments through, it looks like. (I didn't see a CAPTCHA on your comment form when I just went there.) The reason why you want to stop this before the comments even show up in your queue is because it's only a matter of time before you get hit with a poorly-written spam bot that comments on your site every minute, or even faster. This has the effect of getting your webhost ticked off at you because either you start consuming a lot of memory on your server, or because your DB grows too quickly.
This happened to me, and I couldn't do anything with my DB until I deleted a lot of stuff from it.
If you install a good CAPTCHA then at the very least you'll have to have someone pay $10 to have your CAPTCHA broken 10,000 times. (Yes, that's the actual going rate for human CAPTCHA breaking. Not much, is it?)
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5:49 pm
July 23, 2011
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My Personal Finance Journey
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I use Intense Debate for my commenting, and it must do a good job weeding out the spam bots because I never (even in my spam moderation folder) get more than 5 spam comments per week! Wild!
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6:02 pm
July 23, 2011
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Akismet did wonder for me, think the spammers has some kind of reporting because since all my spams were caught by Akismet, they never appeared on the posts, and hence they are not spamming any more seeing no result. last week I hardly got any spam…
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7:19 pm
July 23, 2011
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Sustainable PF
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GASP is by far the best product IMO.
When Pat Flynn adopts it, that says something.
Captcha will ban LEGIT people leaving comments and you'll never see them.
@Hunter – "confirm you are human" is GASP btw.
We get perhaps 3-5 spam a week.
Last
week we were getting this trackback spam from this site that had 4
numbers in the URLs (same IP for each). BRUTAL. Every roundup we got
mentioned in was linked to by this jerk on 8-10 sites.
I found a way to BAN his IP but it takes some work you'll need to be comfortable with.
I
use cpanel which has an IP deny manager function in it (which worked -
woot!) but otherwise you need to go to your .htaccess file and add the
following:
order allow,deny
deny from xxx.xxx.xx.x (*** USE THE IP THAT IS SPAMMING YOU ***)
allow from all
then re-save the file.
If you have trouble seeing
the .htaccess file you need to select "show hidden files" when prompted
in cpanel. Now, you may have already SAVED your options in CPANEL, so
go to the very bottom of your CPANEL view and click: "reset all
interface settings", then go and open your admin panel again, you will
be prompted to show what kind of files – click show hidden!
This guy/gal was spamming us SO bad (we don't use ASKIMET at all anymore – just Bad Behaviour and GASP and we get little/no spam and never lose legit comments).
Not sure if this is the issue you have Buck, but if not this research I did will hopefully help others in the future!
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11:56 pm
July 23, 2011
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Buck Inspire
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Hi all,
Thanks for all the valuable feedback. Will sift through your suggestions and see what will work best for me. Thanks all. Damm spammers!
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12:15 pm
July 24, 2011
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Buck Inspire
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Hi SPF,
I may need to use your advice. I used GASP and it is still coming through. What's happening is he's stealing my content and pinging back to me. So it's not really a comment. Getting flooded with pingbacks. Unreal.
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5:01 pm
July 24, 2011
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Sustainable PF
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Buck Inspire said:
Hi SPF,
I may need to use your advice. I used GASP and it is still coming through. What's happening is he's stealing my content and pinging back to me. So it's not really a comment. Getting flooded with pingbacks. Unreal.
Using the fix I mentioned above I was able to stop the pingbacks as well. He was stealing content from Carnivals then posting it on multiple crappy sites he has and I was getting pings from all of them for every carnival he heisted.
Drop me an email … do you use cpanel?
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8:31 pm
July 24, 2011
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Buck Inspire
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Hey SPF,
Thanks for the idea. I am blocking the SPAMMER's ip addresses. Appreciate your help!
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3:36 am
July 25, 2011
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101 Centavos
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TypePad Antispam seems to work well enough for my blog. I get a few a week that get through, but they still get filtered and sent to the spam folder, and I have to manually delete them. A drawback seems to be that any trackbacks from link roundups are tagged as spam, and I have to manually approve them. Leads me to wonder if any trackbacks are sent to spam purgatory by TypePad.
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6:22 am
July 25, 2011
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Sustainable PF
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Buck Inspire said:
Hey SPF,
Thanks for the idea. I am blocking the SPAMMER's ip addresses. Appreciate your help!
You're welcome Buck!
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6:05 pm
July 25, 2011
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Sustainable PF said:
GASP is by far the best product IMO.
When Pat Flynn adopts it, that says something.
Captcha will ban LEGIT people leaving comments and you'll never see them.
@Hunter – "confirm you are human" is GASP btw.
We get perhaps 3-5 spam a week.
Last
week we were getting this trackback spam from this site that had 4
numbers in the URLs (same IP for each). BRUTAL. Every roundup we got
mentioned in was linked to by this jerk on 8-10 sites.
I found a way to BAN his IP but it takes some work you'll need to be comfortable with.
I
use cpanel which has an IP deny manager function in it (which worked -
woot!) but otherwise you need to go to your .htaccess file and add the
following:
order allow,deny
deny from xxx.xxx.xx.x (*** USE THE IP THAT IS SPAMMING YOU ***)
allow from all
then re-save the file.
If you have trouble seeing
the .htaccess file you need to select "show hidden files" when prompted
in cpanel. Now, you may have already SAVED your options in CPANEL, so
go to the very bottom of your CPANEL view and click: "reset all
interface settings", then go and open your admin panel again, you will
be prompted to show what kind of files – click show hidden!
This guy/gal was spamming us SO bad (we don't use ASKIMET at all anymore – just Bad Behaviour and GASP and we get little/no spam and never lose legit comments).
Not sure if this is the issue you have Buck, but if not this research I did will hopefully help others in the future!
I just ban the ip address via my host provider through IP deny icon. Of course the IP address could change, but so far they haven't.
Thanks for the info about .htaccess file! I had no ideas you could deny ip address traffic though that config file! I'm going to have to break down and learn Apache.
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7:37 pm
July 25, 2011
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Squirrelers
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Good information here everyone, thanks. I've been getting something from one particular site every day up to 2 times per day - it goes to my spam folder, thankfully, but still irritating. Time to block them.
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7:52 am
July 26, 2011
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everydaytips
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The trackback spammer is attacking me too! I am getting about 100 a day.
Here is a dumb question- does spam like this get included in traffic stats somehow?
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11:07 am
July 26, 2011
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Sandy @ yesiamcheap
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everydaytips said:
The trackback spammer is attacking me too! I am getting about 100 a day.
Here is a dumb question- does spam like this get included in traffic stats somehow?
I don't think that trackbacks get counted.
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12:28 pm
July 26, 2011
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Sustainable PF
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everydaytips said:
The trackback spammer is attacking me too! I am getting about 100 a day.
Here is a dumb question- does spam like this get included in traffic stats somehow?
I was getting upward of 100 too from some URL that had 6 numbers in it with a ton of different domains. My posts, my included articles – then about 12-16 fake trackbacks as this persons site would ping me from all of them.
Blocked the IP and it has been silent :)
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6:22 pm
July 26, 2011
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Hunter @financiallyc
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Thanks SPF, I'll be installing GASP in the near future.
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5:25 pm
July 27, 2011
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everydaytips
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unfortunately for me, I am under attack from many different ip addresses, and there are a lot of inappropriate language in these trackbacks too. They are also listing the website as google.com. I am perplexed as to why this is happening. I must have really impressed someone with my new page rank of 1…
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3:06 am
July 28, 2011
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Dana
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I've found that the spammers tend to work in waves – I'll get a bunch of stuff from all different ip's and then after I ban them all, I won't have any problems for months. It really is annoying though – my time can be spent in better ways than fighting off these spammer jerks.
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