What is it with comments spammers?

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by corena, Nov 29, 2005.

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    I am on blogger and I get a bunch of spam comments from ebook sellers and power this..or whatever ..they come in and leave a comment with a link...most of them do not even have a blog... (end rant)

    Any thoughts?:D
     
    corena, Nov 29, 2005 IP
  2. Crazy_Rob

    Crazy_Rob I seen't it!

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    Make it so you have to approve the comments first.
     
    Crazy_Rob, Nov 29, 2005 IP
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    petertdavis Notable Member

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    I think of it as a kind of 'rite of passage', sort of your blog being christened by comment spam.
     
    petertdavis, Nov 29, 2005 IP
  4. jawinn

    jawinn Active Member

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    I had that problem with some of my early blogs. Blogger has a fix, turn on word verification. This makes people have to type in a funky code to make comments. This eliminated comment spammers all together.
     
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    NewBeing Guest

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    Great advice jawinn, I am new to blogging and blogger and have also been having problems with comment spammers.

    Thanks alot
     
    NewBeing, Nov 29, 2005 IP
  6. bschneider5

    bschneider5 Active Member

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    That's one of the many problems with blogger. This was ultimately the reason I moved to wordpress on my own domain.
     
    bschneider5, Nov 30, 2005 IP