Comments on: Combating Spam – Disable Trackbacks for Older Posts in WordPress http://www.shaolintiger.com/2007/02/15/combating-spam-disable-trackbacks-for-older-posts-in-wordpress/ Inane Ramblings of a Photographer/Hacker/Brit in Malaysia Eating, Drinking and Partying! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:35:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ShaolinTiger http://www.shaolintiger.com/2007/02/15/combating-spam-disable-trackbacks-for-older-posts-in-wordpress/#comment-53629 ShaolinTiger Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:31:53 +0000 http://www.shaolintiger.com/2007/02/15/combating-spam-disable-trackbacks-for-older-posts-in-wordpress/#comment-53629 <strong>gbyeow:</strong> Yah it's pretty insane, I was getting 300-400 a day sometimes, my total on this blog since I switched on Akismet is 49,355. If you follow the steps in this post you should get almost zero. <strong>michaelooi:</strong> Hahah that's a good idea. Make it a twin feature..IQ test and anti-spam captcha. Well the problem was Akismet did catch all my spam, but I was getting too many so I couldn't check for real comments that had gotten caught by mistake. <strong>Matthew:</strong> I'd rather not have a site where only members of a proprietary system can comment :P <strong>Dabido (Teflon):</strong> Yah that's why I had this bright idea, I didn't want to shut off trackbacks, but it's most likely I get trackbacks for posts in the last 1-2 months so I leave those on. <strong>Psycho Dude:</strong> I hope you stay spam free! gbyeow: Yah it’s pretty insane, I was getting 300-400 a day sometimes, my total on this blog since I switched on Akismet is 49,355. If you follow the steps in this post you should get almost zero.

michaelooi: Hahah that’s a good idea. Make it a twin feature..IQ test and anti-spam captcha. Well the problem was Akismet did catch all my spam, but I was getting too many so I couldn’t check for real comments that had gotten caught by mistake.

Matthew: I’d rather not have a site where only members of a proprietary system can comment :P

Dabido (Teflon): Yah that’s why I had this bright idea, I didn’t want to shut off trackbacks, but it’s most likely I get trackbacks for posts in the last 1-2 months so I leave those on.

Psycho Dude: I hope you stay spam free!

]]> By: Psycho Dude http://www.shaolintiger.com/2007/02/15/combating-spam-disable-trackbacks-for-older-posts-in-wordpress/#comment-52218 Psycho Dude Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:06:21 +0000 http://www.shaolintiger.com/2007/02/15/combating-spam-disable-trackbacks-for-older-posts-in-wordpress/#comment-52218 Spam definitely is online enemy number 1 and hard to battle off completely, but disabling trackbacks on old posts is indeed a good way of preventing an overload of spam. Fortunately I'm lucky enough and not having too much spam comments being submitted to my blog yet, so akismet serves just well for now on dealing with them. Spam definitely is online enemy number 1 and hard to battle off completely, but disabling trackbacks on old posts is indeed a good way of preventing an overload of spam. Fortunately I’m lucky enough and not having too much spam comments being submitted to my blog yet, so akismet serves just well for now on dealing with them.

]]> By: Dabido (Teflon) http://www.shaolintiger.com/2007/02/15/combating-spam-disable-trackbacks-for-older-posts-in-wordpress/#comment-52052 Dabido (Teflon) Fri, 16 Feb 2007 02:29:41 +0000 http://www.shaolintiger.com/2007/02/15/combating-spam-disable-trackbacks-for-older-posts-in-wordpress/#comment-52052 Yeah, I installed DYPM a while ago as well. When I kept getting Spammed I e-mailed the guy who wrote the program and he told me I was getting trackback Spam from some guy in Russia. He also told me to turn off trackbakcs, which I didn't want to do. [Due to the ocassional trackback I get]. Thanx for the code, it saves me turning trackback off completely. I'll be sticking it into my blog soon [I hope ... if I get time ... ]. Yeah, I installed DYPM a while ago as well. When I kept getting Spammed I e-mailed the guy who wrote the program and he told me I was getting trackback Spam from some guy in Russia.

He also told me to turn off trackbakcs, which I didn’t want to do. [Due to the ocassional trackback I get].

Thanx for the code, it saves me turning trackback off completely. I’ll be sticking it into my blog soon [I hope ... if I get time ... ].

]]> By: Matthew http://www.shaolintiger.com/2007/02/15/combating-spam-disable-trackbacks-for-older-posts-in-wordpress/#comment-51996 Matthew Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:39:14 +0000 http://www.shaolintiger.com/2007/02/15/combating-spam-disable-trackbacks-for-older-posts-in-wordpress/#comment-51996 that's the beauty of Xanga? Haha. that’s the beauty of Xanga? Haha.

]]> By: michaelooi http://www.shaolintiger.com/2007/02/15/combating-spam-disable-trackbacks-for-older-posts-in-wordpress/#comment-51931 michaelooi Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:00:10 +0000 http://www.shaolintiger.com/2007/02/15/combating-spam-disable-trackbacks-for-older-posts-in-wordpress/#comment-51931 i was thinking of adding that math plugin too... maybe dump in questions with certain level of difficulty, just so you know, to keep out those really dumb trolls out from my blog. But then, I don't get a lot of spams with Akismet... so, I'll just wait and see... i was thinking of adding that math plugin too… maybe dump in questions with certain level of difficulty, just so you know, to keep out those really dumb trolls out from my blog. But then, I don’t get a lot of spams with Akismet… so, I’ll just wait and see…

]]> By: Boss Stewie http://www.shaolintiger.com/2007/02/15/combating-spam-disable-trackbacks-for-older-posts-in-wordpress/#comment-51924 Boss Stewie Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:18:05 +0000 http://www.shaolintiger.com/2007/02/15/combating-spam-disable-trackbacks-for-older-posts-in-wordpress/#comment-51924 yeah my mailbox is full of spam too yeah my mailbox is full of spam too

]]> By: gbyeow http://www.shaolintiger.com/2007/02/15/combating-spam-disable-trackbacks-for-older-posts-in-wordpress/#comment-51867 gbyeow Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:53:59 +0000 http://www.shaolintiger.com/2007/02/15/combating-spam-disable-trackbacks-for-older-posts-in-wordpress/#comment-51867 I switched on Akismet in August and it's caught 25k spam since. Doing the maths, that's averaging around 140 spam a day... I think for my case, there's a bot spamming the older posts daily. There are several specific posts that are hit hard and I have an itch to switch off comments for those. Hulkragesmashspam! I switched on Akismet in August and it’s caught 25k spam since. Doing the maths, that’s averaging around 140 spam a day… I think for my case, there’s a bot spamming the older posts daily. There are several specific posts that are hit hard and I have an itch to switch off comments for those.

Hulkragesmashspam!

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