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Sunday, October 12, 2003

damn comment spam bots to

damn comment spam bots to hell
Posted by clayton in
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clayton  on  10/12  at  11:42 PM

i’m not fucking kidding

melly  on  10/13  at  12:19 AM

No shit. I spent well over an hour deleting comments this afternoon. I usually wouldn’t care but they were ads for underaged girls sites.

 on  10/13  at  03:04 AM

yep - nightmare. I spent about 4 hours last night trying to come up with a way to prevent them. So far I’ve got a solution that doesn’t allow the page to be accessed by a link that’s not on my site, but it’s a javascriptthing. Do you think that spam-bots have ways around that? I’ve also still got to get in a bit that re-directs if the referrer is “null”, but am working on it. What do you think? Will it work?

clayton  on  10/13  at  07:14 AM

actually, Mr. Hatley would be way better to ask than me… his web kung fu is much more powerful than mine

melly  on  10/13  at  11:00 AM

So far, banning ips has helped. My old mt is screwed so I can’t do anything about it. I was spammed on it last night, but not my new mt. Probably won’t last long though.

 on  10/13  at  11:34 AM

I just pray some group of hard, pipe-hittin’ uber geeks get together to create a deadly anti-spam vigilante squad.  Start taking their servers out at the kneecap.

Matt  on  10/13  at  01:43 PM

What IP range were they coming from? A bunch of people were getting hit by 209.210.176.XXX. Fortunately I didn’t get hit with any spam this time around, but it is a pain in the ass when it happens.

Lisa  on  10/13  at  01:52 PM

I’ve tried IP banning and it plain don’t work. IPs that were clearly banned were showing up in the spam posts. Mine all start with 64…

Matt  on  10/13  at  02:21 PM

That is strange. Perhaps take a look at Jay Allen’s page. He has some information available about getting rid of comment spam. You can find his site here:

http://www.jayallen.org/journey/2003/09/killing_comment_spam_dead

 on  10/13  at  03:35 PM

See these blacklist things don’t make any sense to me. I sometimes have two of a single URL spam, but normally they’re all different, Porn, Jewelry, dating, all sorts…

Matt  on  10/13  at  05:22 PM

Maybe it just means that you have a popular weblog… would make sense as to why I rarely get hit with the spam…

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