Still getting Wordpress blog spam, how do I diagnose?
David Ing
additional social function. (I've blogged about this, at
http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/helping-to-digitize-books-while-fighting-comment-spam/
).
I've been hoping that reCAPTCHA would reduce the number of entries in
the Akismet queue, but the list to be cleaned up still runs at about a
dozen per day.
In addition to Akismet, I've also been running Angsuman's Referrer
Bouncer, Bad Behavior, reCAPTCHA, Worst Offenders and WP Ban on two of
my blogs. I've installed Trackback Validator, but after a week, the
Recent Activity is zero, which makes me think that maybe my problem
isn't trackback spam.
How do I diagnose where the comment spam is coming from? Looking at
the access logs, I see "POST /blogs/wp-comments-post.php" with status
codes of 403 (probably from WP Ban), 302, and 417. Thanks.
reCAPTCHA Support
Spam that reCAPTCHA catches will still land in the Akismet queue. Due to the way wordpress works, it's difficult to make it clear how an entry got marked as spam. We recommend turning off systems like Akismet when using reCAPTCHA. When using reCAPTCHA, Akismet will only give you false-positives, which is a bad experience for users.
the access logs, I see "POST /blogs/wp- comments-post.php" with status
codes of 403 (probably from WP Ban), 302, and 417. Thanks.
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reCAPTCHA: stop spam, read books
http://recaptcha.net
David Ing
my blogs for a little while to learn what happens. Since I still have
the other plugins running, think my risk is low for a little
experimentation. I'll report back.
I have had false positives in the Akismet queue -- I have a friend who
seems to respond to my blog entries in bursts -- and her comments were
in the Akismet queue.
On Oct 11, 11:39 am, "reCAPTCHA Support" <supp...@recaptcha.net>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Spam that reCAPTCHA catches will still land in the Akismet queue. Due to the
> way wordpress works, it's difficult to make it clear how an entry got marked
> as spam. We recommend turning off systems like Akismet when using reCAPTCHA.
> When using reCAPTCHA, Akismet will only give you false-positives, which is a
> bad experience for users.
>
> On 10/11/07, David Ing <wuliwe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > I resisted using CAPTCHA on my blogs until reCAPTCHA provided an
> > additional social function. (I've blogged about this, at
>
> >http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/helping-to-digitize-boo...
> > ).
>
> > I've been hoping that reCAPTCHA would reduce the number of entries in
> > the Akismet queue, but the list to be cleaned up still runs at about a
> > dozen per day.
>
> > In addition to Akismet, I've also been running Angsuman's Referrer
> > Bouncer, Bad Behavior, reCAPTCHA, Worst Offenders and WP Ban on two of
> > my blogs. I've installed Trackback Validator, but after a week, the
> > Recent Activity is zero, which makes me think that maybe my problem
> > isn't trackback spam.
>
> > How do I diagnose where the comment spam is coming from? Looking at
> > the access logs, I see "POST /blogs/wp-comments-post.php" with status
reCAPTCHA Support
We highly recommend turning off ALL other spam plugins (other than those relating to trackbacks and pingbacks). With reCAPTCHA you can be sure that any comment you get was entered by a human. While it's still possible to have human generated spam, this is something that plugins generally can't catch. We've also found that this is very rare.
When you do this, you'll still find that spam goes into the Akismet queue. This is because reCAPTCHA uses a similar way of telling wordpress that a post is spam as Akismet. We recommend that you generally ignore the spam queue since there are no longer going to be false positives.