Comments on: Spammers-Throw Them Off A Cliff, See If They Can Fly

By: Topmaker

Topmaker — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:01:29 +0000

I feel your pain Sheila, but your e-mail is on your contact page for all the Spam bots to see!

I would use WP AntiSpam-SpamFree plugin which has a contact form built in, Add BanHammer with: StopForumSpam (dot)com checked and say Bye to those Lame Brains.
@ A BadGalSays: Love your evil!

By: Sheila

Sheila — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:03:01 +0000

RE – A BadGalSays

You’ll have to teach me some of your “evil” tricks – what the heck is a honeypot?

PS – the post I was trying to put together to update this one got trashed, I got bad info off of a couple of blogs here. I’ve got to watch it I’m always ready to bash EC but sometimes some of the people who are complaining don’t do their research. As far as what I think is going to happen with EC – I have NO clue – I think they have made it PAINFULLY obvious that they don’t care very much what the members think, want or whatever. I never know when I’m going to get mad enough to just walk away. I’ve been sooo close quite a few times. (It’s just that I would miss the blog hopping, EC makes it really easy)

Sheila

By: RE - A BadGalSays

RE - A BadGalSays — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:10:58 +0000

Sheila, I so feel you girlfriend. Spam is like the waste of time you wish you could return to someone. i’ve got a trick. I know it’s bad but it so makes me feel better.

when somebody continues to spam me, I go to their site, leave a link to a honeypot and wham, it’s over.

mean but effective, trust me. I had the kanye west shoe fight going on in my comments for a week and it even included a threat to sue me along with whomever they were beefing with. I got so pissed I closed the comments for the piece, then went to their site and their ebay shop and blew it up with honeypot url reposts. that ended the scenario quickly. trust me spammers hate it when you return the favor.

also I block their ip’s on the backside of my blog with the wordpress plugin – BAN. it works like a charm. that stops them cold, but I leave them subscribed to my blog; and lock them out. cold blooooooooded, sexysexysexy – to quote Rick “cocaine is a hell of a drug” James. and he oughta know. (wink*wink)

By: Leonard

Leonard — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:58:25 +0000

I’m new to the blogging world, but I’m using the Defensio plugin for wordpress and it’s working great so far. As far as email spam goes gmail seams pretty good at filtering it out so that makes me very happy.

By: Liezl

Liezl — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 01:41:01 +0000

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By: Walt Webb

Walt Webb — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:42:25 +0000

Yes Sheila I agree with you. Most of them are just a bunch of affiliate marketers with nothing of value to say. Web 2.0 does not exist for them. I get lots of spam emails but not so much on my blog anymore. Try using the Akismet (sp?) plugin, then when you get spam put the ips in the HTML code for it and they are blocked. After 2-3 weeks of this most of the culprits are gone.
Walt AKA All Sports on the Web

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:48:59 +0000

I am surprised that Akismet doesn’t block the spam.

By: Man Over Board

Man Over Board — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:07:13 +0000

My largest headache the past three weeks is trying to keep spammers away from my blog. I have tried every combination of WordPress plugins and when I finally have it locked down tight and no manual deletions to be found. That is when I find that my regular readers have problems leaving comments or I get error messages to my readers.

I have five, yes five different plugins to combat the spam. So far I am not getting anymore errors, or lets say very few. I still have to manually delete around 20 spammers a day, but I can live with that. I guess it’s just part of doing business and growing your blog. Great article by the way.

By: Larry Brauner

Larry Brauner — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:02:36 +0000

In addition to the disgusting type of spam, there’s also, “Great post. Keep up the good work.”

How many of those link scavenging comments do you get a day?

I’ve written enough about spam on my blog that I even set up a spam tag:

http://online-social-networking.com/tag/spam

I’ve looked at spam from a number of angles, but no matter what, it’s still spiced ham.