[thelist] Dealing with "feel good" comment spam

Christian Heilmann codepo8 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 3 14:23:04 CDT 2005


On 7/3/05, Matt Warden <mwarden at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/3/05, Christian Heilmann <codepo8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just got flooded with hundreds of comments praising my blog as a
> > "great guestbook" and "wealth of information" and  "visiting again as
> > this  is cool".
> >
> > What puzzles me most is that they don't link to any spam sites, like
> > normal comment spams do.
> >
> > How can you counteract those,
> 
> Well, what CMS are you using? Wordpress has whitelisting, which is
> what I typically use (i.e., Put in moderation queue unless this poster
> has posted an approved comment before).

Well,that is what I am doing, but 150 comments in the moderation queue
are still rather annoying and might  make you  oversee a real comment
when you batch delete :-/


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