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Get off Spammers!

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I wrote about comment spam I was getting on my blogs a while ago. I didn't bother to do anything about it, but last week it just went out of hands. I used to get about 250 spam comments everyday on both mehtanirav and TrustAndFreedom. The Magnet blog also gets lot of spam. I didn't want to install a Captcha on the blog as the server does not have GD support. And I found WP-HashCash. It's pretty simple to setup, does not require GD, and is 100% effective! I did not have any spam for the last three days! I strongly recommend HashCash for anybody using WordPress!

Written by Nirav

May 1st, 2006 at 9:34 am

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  1. Hi,

    I am using wordpress and didn’t got any spam! but they have nice anti-spam techniques.

    Kartik

    Kartik Mistry

    2 May 06 at 11:30 am

  2. Hi Nirav I too had been plagued by spammers once but I installed the Spam Quiz plugin (http://www.i-marco.nl/wp/wordpress/) and I have since enjoyed a spam free blog.

    What Spam Quiz does is, ask a simple random question from your specified list of questions and once the user answers the question, he can comment.

    I initially used some spelling and such questions but am now using it to ask simple math question. It works!

    And oh… I love your blog.

    Regards.

    Shashank Sharma

    2 May 06 at 3:29 pm

  3. Thanks for the reference Shashank. I did not want to add an extra step in the comment process. Wanted to make it seamless for actual visitors! Hence opted for HashCash. :-)

    And thanks for the second last line ;-)

    Nirav

    3 May 06 at 1:02 pm

  4. Hmmmm…. I was typing a comment took a break and my comment disappeared!

    You can also try Akismet

    Tarique Sani

    3 May 06 at 7:56 pm

  5. I checked out Akismet.. It said you need a key from wordpress.com – I don’t have a wordpress.com account so I didn’t move forward. Now I may be wrong, but that’s what I understood from their site!

    Nirav

    3 May 06 at 8:45 pm

  6. Yes you need a key and for that you need a wordpress.com account – but the account is free and the hassle is worth it. I recently created an Akismet addon for Pixelpost Photoblog and I was impressed more so as to how it did not flag my test SPAM as SPAM but managed to catch every real one.

    Tarique Sani

    3 May 06 at 9:57 pm

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