This morning I woke up to find that a spammer has hit The Designer Diva. Since I have been encouraging comments on this site, I had turned off Blogger's Comment Moderation and Verification features. I was fortunate that the spammer was still live when I got on line and managed to activate the features within minutes.
I counted about 85 comment spams that managed to get through and about 50 more stuck in moderation before the idiot realized that the comments were no longer posting.
An hour later while I am in the middle of putting together this post, the same spammer started hitting The Bikini Body Diet. My outlook notification is live and it was buzzing like a bee with all the new casino posts. I shut him down within a few comments and about 100+ are stuck in comment moderation.
I should have known. These two sites hit PR3 ranking a couple of days ago.
Today is a busy day for me, and having to delete all these unwanted comments has set me back a couple of hours. Not to mention that I now have to seriously consider implementing a better strategy to prevent this from happening in the future.
What is Blogger doing to cope with unwanted spam comments? Blogger Help and the Group Support was not much help. The only solutions being offered are: Turn on Comment Moderation and/or Word Verification. There must be a blogger hack out there that I am not finding.
Why is it that Moveable Type and Word Press have better solutions available for their bloggers? Word Press itself lists over 10 Spam Filter options. Google Search has come up a big zero for blogger. I looked for Blacklist Creation, Word Filtering Option, IP Blocking... Is there a big conspiracy here that we dont know about?
For now I'll have to take Blogger's solution of leaving Word Verification on so that the bots cant get through and hopefully manual spams will get too tired of having to enter the long captchas.
However, I have a big plan. When I have time, I am going to write a script that will let me filter specific words (casino, poker, online gambling...) from being published as is. Instead, objectionable content will be changed into catchy phrases such as I LOVE THIS BLOG, THE DIVA IS THE GREATEST, and the list goes on.....
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I counted about 85 comment spams that managed to get through and about 50 more stuck in moderation before the idiot realized that the comments were no longer posting.
An hour later while I am in the middle of putting together this post, the same spammer started hitting The Bikini Body Diet. My outlook notification is live and it was buzzing like a bee with all the new casino posts. I shut him down within a few comments and about 100+ are stuck in comment moderation.
I should have known. These two sites hit PR3 ranking a couple of days ago.
Today is a busy day for me, and having to delete all these unwanted comments has set me back a couple of hours. Not to mention that I now have to seriously consider implementing a better strategy to prevent this from happening in the future.
What is Blogger doing to cope with unwanted spam comments? Blogger Help and the Group Support was not much help. The only solutions being offered are: Turn on Comment Moderation and/or Word Verification. There must be a blogger hack out there that I am not finding.
Why is it that Moveable Type and Word Press have better solutions available for their bloggers? Word Press itself lists over 10 Spam Filter options. Google Search has come up a big zero for blogger. I looked for Blacklist Creation, Word Filtering Option, IP Blocking... Is there a big conspiracy here that we dont know about?
For now I'll have to take Blogger's solution of leaving Word Verification on so that the bots cant get through and hopefully manual spams will get too tired of having to enter the long captchas.
However, I have a big plan. When I have time, I am going to write a script that will let me filter specific words (casino, poker, online gambling...) from being published as is. Instead, objectionable content will be changed into catchy phrases such as I LOVE THIS BLOG, THE DIVA IS THE GREATEST, and the list goes on.....
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posted by The Imaginary Diva at 3:41 PM
Blogger sucks when it comes to comment spam. They don't have a spam solution. I say switch to Wordpress. :) You should check out the new FeedBurner RRS feed plugin I'm using. :)