I think Matt was reading my mind . .or my blog:
Comment spam is a problem that hits many blog systems, but fortunately on WordPress there are some very robust ways to deal with this scourge. We’re building some important protections into 1.3 but in the meantime you should take action to protect yourself. Our own Podz has put together a great resource on the Codex on how to Combat Comment Spam that has dozens of excellent methods, and here are some of the highlights
Click here for details. Run! Run! Do it!
OH! And WordPress 1.2.2 has been released! Yahoo! Read about the bug fixes and then go download! It costs , as they say, ‘free ninety nine’!
UPDATE: I installed the WordPress 1.2.2 upgrade and things are working great!
UPDATE: I installed Spam Karma - - had a few issues because I stupidly named a file the wrong name (duh!) - but now that it’s up and running it seems a pretty awesome tool. Can someone leave a test comment here for me because I’ve heard that Spam Karma can delete all comments but ones left by the owner of the blog, I want to make sure this isn’t the case! Thnx!
Sounds like one heck of a week! Glad to hear you got...
11:51 am on December 17th, 2004
Testing comments after upgrade . . ignore me
12:12 pm on December 17th, 2004
Testing comments after installation of Spam Karma - - ignore me again
12:13 pm on December 17th, 2004
And? It went okay, I guess? I loved that e-mail from Matt Mullenweg.
This part was — WOW! — (P.S. This message is going out to almost ten thousand people, that blows my mind.)
12:16 pm on December 17th, 2004
How could we ever ignore you, Lisa???!!!
12:16 pm on December 17th, 2004
I’ve got to download this and install onto my son’s site and the augusta coin club site.
12:19 pm on December 17th, 2004
Excellent, comments going through
12:32 pm on December 17th, 2004
Well, there’s egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam; egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam; spam, sausage, spam, spam, spam, bacon, spam, tomato and spam; spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; (Vikings start singing in background) spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam.
12:36 pm on December 17th, 2004
Fred, you’re just a nut
12:41 pm on December 17th, 2004
I wish I could take credit for the mighty Python, but alas I’m a plagiarist nut
12:44 pm on December 17th, 2004
but a funny plagiarist nut
12:44 pm on December 17th, 2004
How did you get hold of Anna Nichol Smith’s shopping list?
12:46 pm on December 17th, 2004
OK that was wierd, where did Jeanette’s post go? It should have been between 10 and 11….. makes 11 look kinda wierd….
12:47 pm on December 17th, 2004
I think the spam monster ate it lol
12:49 pm on December 17th, 2004
because of the pills reference?
12:51 pm on December 17th, 2004
I guess so - because she used all of the commonly known words that those spammers love to foist off on blogs.
t r a m o d o l
v i a g r a
x a n a x
Pharmaceutical spam!
12:54 pm on December 17th, 2004
does that mean we can’t post the word Viagra ????
12:56 pm on December 17th, 2004
You can post it - but it will get thrown into comment moderation until I choose to approve it
12:57 pm on December 17th, 2004
can you publish a list of words we can’t use ? it seems that the software might be a little over sensative, some of us might have a legitimate use for V i a g r a … the word that is, how ’bout those bears……
12:59 pm on December 17th, 2004
lol Fred - I”m sorry the drug spammers are ruining your fun.
I published my list of spam words once before - it’s located here
1:06 pm on December 17th, 2004
Man that sucks… I can’t use British - Hardcore? or Justasex?, how am I going to manage? Actually your list kinda made me do a double take when I saw Fl*wer@aol.com, my wife’s email address when we first met was Flower4444@aol.com, I thought she might have branched out into Spamming….
1:08 pm on December 17th, 2004
How do we install it Lisa-those of who are–well - not good with this stuff?
1:13 pm on December 17th, 2004
your having performance issues Jay?, I could make some recommendations but I would be censored by Lisa’s comment gestapo
1:23 pm on December 17th, 2004
Jay - - ignore Fred . . . he’s having penis envy issues today
To get it done - you drop an email to your webhost provider real nice-like . . . maybe they’ll oblige
1:37 pm on December 17th, 2004
……….:cry::cry::cry:
1:40 pm on December 17th, 2004
Umm, Fred - - something wrong?
1:41 pm on December 17th, 2004
Leave me alone ::sob:: I’m not playing with you any more!!:cry::cry::cry:
1:42 pm on December 17th, 2004
Fred: can dish but cannot take.
This is fun!
1:43 pm on December 17th, 2004
::: sulking :::
1:45 pm on December 17th, 2004
See? You’re playing.
Don’t even try to pretend you’re not playing, cuz you’re playing!
1:48 pm on December 17th, 2004
I need to add Lisa to my answer to #5
1:49 pm on December 17th, 2004
play. play. play.
See Fred play.
2:01 pm on December 17th, 2004
Not sure we should be talking about penis size and play in the same thread, we might get blocked, especially if we use the dreaded V word.
2:04 pm on December 17th, 2004
v i a g r a deficiencies?
2:05 pm on December 17th, 2004
Fred isn’t playing with us anymore? Does that mean he’s just playing with himself????
2:06 pm on December 17th, 2004
Asstro!
Why didn’t I think of that one?
2:18 pm on December 17th, 2004
Thats right just gang up on poor ole Fred…
2:47 pm on December 17th, 2004
Lissa!
I just figured I had to beat you to it!
4:39 pm on December 17th, 2004
Heh heh … that’s funny that my comment disappeared. Poor RedFred.
(That was a good one Asstro).
10:43 am on December 18th, 2004
What I’d like is for them to come up with a way to automatically DELETE comment spam (i.e. my latest run of online poker ads). I get sick of having to go in and manually delete the “chaff” and wish I could tell it to just delete anything from THIS IP address or containing of THIS word, etc.
10:44 am on December 18th, 2004
Delete them from the moderation queue, I should have said. The way I worded it, it sounded like they were making it through to the blog.
12:34 pm on April 21st, 2006
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I am Petra, very interesting article that contained the information I was searching for in Google, thanks.