Please remove the link to the spam URL.
Don’t worry, sometimes one or two get through, but keep in mind that it’s always one or two out of a hundred or a thousand. And, please remove that spam link. They don’t need to use our forums as PR boost too.
Sorry, I should’ve thought of that before I posted it
I’ve JUST started having this problem as well. I’m getting 5 or so a day like this.
Some spammers will manually submit spam comments. It’s extremely hard for Bad Behavior to block these.
Make sure you have a reasonable set of moderation words. I only have the major items (poker, viagra, cailas, etc). This provides defense in-depth: if a comment makes it back BB and SK2, WordPress’ default moderation system will still catch it.
well, the poker part is showing up in the user’s name instead of the url or email or post…and this is how they’re getting through, I think.
Moderation words should check all of the commenter’s information. You can even put IP addresses in your list of moderation words, to force users from specific IPs to always be moderated.
And, if you find a pattern, or prominent bot slipping through the cracks, please feel free to submit the information to the developers of Bad Behavior and Spam Karma.
Skippy: I DO have “poker” listed as a comment moderation term. But I’m one of a good number of WP users whose entire comment moderation settings aren’t working (I surely wish the bug would be fixed by someone). So this comment wasn’t moderated as it should’ve been.
richards1052: AFAIK SK2 skips the builtin WordPress moderation words so adding things there to fix this won’t help.
Can you paste the SK2 Karma report on this comment that skipped through which details how it got the karma level that made it public?
If you want to ensure that all comments go into moderation no mater what – which the WordPress option Γ’β¬ΕAn administrator must approve the comment (regardless of any matches below)Γ’β¬? does without SK2 activated then you can use this SK2 plugin to make SK2 obey that option http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/wordpress/sk2-moderate-plugin/
If there is enough demand for a SK2 plugin to make it use the builtin WordPress moderation keys I’m sure one could fairly easily be cooked up the SK2 API for extending it is very quick and easy to use
westi
Is there a possibility that the comment moderation bug is related to Spam Karma? I run comment moderation and Bad Behavior with no problems, but I don’t have Spam Karma.
Westi: I deleted the spam comment w/o checking it in the SK2 rpt. I assume once I do that it’s erased fr. SK2? In future when this happens, I’ll check out that rpt.
I’d prefer not the force ALL comments through moderation since 90% of my comments are fine. But I would like to force moderation for any comment whose author has not published a comment at my site before. And that setting (along w. all my comment settings) are not working in WP.
But if things do get bad I’ll check out that plugin link you provided.
Macmanx: Maybe I’ll try to deactivate SK2 for a few days to see what happens to my WP comment moderation behavior. But I assume that since there was a time (about 6 wks. or so) when I had BB, SK2 & WP comment moderation working fine together that this shouldn’t be the problem.
richards1052: Yes once you delete the comment the SK2 report will be gone.
… I would like to force moderation for any comment whose author has not published a comment at my site before. And that setting (along w. all my comment settings) are not working in WP.
Ok. By default SK2 bypasses the builtin WordPress comment moderation functionality as it is designed as much more fully feature replacement to the builtin bits – this is why the WordPress settings are not working.
Writing a SK2 plugin to may SK2 obey these WordPress options should not be very difficult – The one I wrote for the Γ’β¬ΕAn administrator must approve the comment (regardless of any matches below)Γ’β¬? option took me about half an hour.
Would you be interested in a SK2 plugin which enforced the following WordPress option “Comment author must have a previously approved comment”? – if so I will have a play later and create this for everyone to use.
That would be magnificent of you if you could build a plugin like that! Just to be clear–I’d like a comment from someone who’s never previously commented to be moderated and all others to be automatically published. Now a question, if SK2 bypasses all WP comment settings is there a way I can add all the WP blacklist/moderated words, banned Ips,urls & e mails to SK2’s blacklist? I see the SK2 blacklist pg. but I don’t see how or where you add such data.
I’m not sure whether SK2 itself caused my WP comment moderation to stop functioning. Because I’ve had SK2 active for a weeks while WP moderation was working. Of course, I don’t remember ever receiving SK2 spam e mail rpts until right around the time the WP comment moderation stopped working. So anything’s possible I guess & you could be right.
Westi: Ok, today SK2 & Bad Behavior let another obvious one through (containing the word “roulette” in the URL). Can you clarify where I should find the “SK2 report” for the comment which you suggest above that I post here? I found this entry in the SK2 “Comments Recently Approved” list. Is this what you mean?
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0.5: Encrypted payload valid: IP matching.
0.5: Comment has no URL in content (but one author URL)
1: Severity settings adjustment.
And can someone tell me when the most recent upgrade for sk2 came out. The author doesn’t provide dates or version #s for SK2 so I can’t tell whether my version installed around June is the most recent or not.
Finally, Westi I haven’t heard from you about that wonderful offer you tantalized me with to write a plugin to force moderation for all new comments. Any progress on that?
richards1052: That is the report I was talking about.
The most recent upgrade for SK2 is definetly newer than June – I have “2.0 Final r2” installed according to my WordPress plugins page.
As for the sk2 plugin – it will come soon I’ve spent the past few days holed up in bed with a nasty cold and am still not 100% – I probably won’t have time to look at it till after next weekend I’m afraid.
