08
Oct
2008

Comment Moderation is Now On :(

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As much as I hate to do this, I'm getting tired of the loser(s) posting WoW spam links in the comments. I don't particularly mind cleaning 'em up... but for the 3 or 4 people that actually cared enough to subscribe to the blog... I really don't like the thought of them getting the spam in return.

At some point, I may look into incorporating Jake Munson's cfFormProtect or some other measure to try and eliminate the spam. But for now, between work and a couple of side jobs that I'm desperately trying to finish up, I simply don't have the time.

If anyone's interested, the spammer in question posted from the following IP addresses (updated 11 Dec 2008). Feel free to add 'em to your blacklist:

67.180.242.3
121.24.171.92
85.254.186.161
78.37.225.89
125.214.254.171
58.61.82.111
218.18.190.89
59.40.36.103
218.18.191.107
88.249.98.46
91.194.191.250
72.3.137.82
122.234.50.22
122.234.49.8
85.26.161.48
122.234.52.25
125.120.151.48
122.234.49.5
122.234.48.176
218.108.223.26

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  1. Justin Carter's Gravatar

    # Posted Justin Carter on 10/9/08 2:23 AM

    Yeah, that WoW Gold and WAR Gold spammer is really annoying... I increased the complexity of the captcha on my blog to deal with it, which isn't a solution that I like :( But within a month I think I've probably had more than 100 spam comments, and after the change (10 days or so ago) I've had about 2 or 3.

  2. todd sharp's Gravatar

    # Posted todd sharp on 10/9/08 6:04 AM

    Just add a few choice 'WOW gold' related domain names and keywords to your trackback spam list and you'll never see this spam again. Thats what I did and it has worked for months.

  3. todd sharp's Gravatar

    # Posted todd sharp on 10/9/08 9:23 AM

    @justin: no offense, but I hate the idea of punishing 99% of your users on account of one moron. difficult captcha = no fun.

  4. Justin Carter's Gravatar

    # Posted Justin Carter on 10/9/08 5:20 PM

    @todd: No offense taken, because I totally agree... The first thing I did was add the relevant keywords to the trackback spam list but it didn't help, the spam continued for almost a full week. I think increasing the captcha by 2 characters is a small price to pay, for now. Personally, I'm just not online enough at the moment for comment moderation to be a good solution, otherwise people might wait a couple of days before I approve comments to appear, which is probably worse since then no real type of discussion can take place at all :\ But it's a hard thing to balance - some blogs are clearly more affected than others for some reason.

  5. Edward Beckett's Gravatar

    # Posted Edward Beckett on 1/5/09 4:27 PM

    It seems like I finally nuked the "Wow Gold" spammer too... it did take me quite a while though ...

    My magic IP list ...

    122.234.50.22
    122.234.49.8
    122.234.52.25

    HTH

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