Beat back the trolls! spam karma 2 blacklist options

  • richards1052

    (@richards1052)


    20 years, 10 months ago

    Can someone explain to me some of the Spam Karma 2 blacklist options like:

    Regex
    Regex Content
    RBL
    Kumo

    The reason I ask is that my WP blacklist terms are not working at all. I know how to enter domains & IPs to the SK blacklist. But can you enter–or how do you enter–other keywords, e mail addresses, URLs, etc.

    I have a stalker/troll who appears to have unlimited IPs to come at me. He appears to use the same e mail over time so if I could add this e mail to SK’s blacklist that might prove slightly helpful (until he starts faking them).

    Any other ideas to defend myself from this jackass?

    The most recent IP he used (69.234.143.98) has this data in Whois:

    Pac Bell Internet Services PBI-NET-021304 (NET-69-224-0-0-1)
    69.224.0.0 – 69.239.255.255
    rback26c.irvnca SBC06923412800020050113165857 (NET-69-234-128-0-1)
    69.234.128.0 – 69.234.143.255

    I don’t know enough about Whois to tell whether any of these other IPs are connected to this person or not.

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  • Peter Westwood

    (@westi)

    20 years, 10 months ago

    Regex and Regex Content entries both use PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) to match on domains and content respectively.

    There is some excellent if hard to navigate documentation on PHPs PCRE support here: http://uk.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax.php

    If you have a particular word to match in the content, you can use the words you would have previously added to the WordPress list, you want to add Regex Content entries like so : /spammersfavouriteword/

    hope this helps.

    Thread Starter richards1052

    (@richards1052)

    20 years, 10 months ago

    Can you add an e mail address or URL in the same way? Or would you do something different?

    You’re right–the information provided through your link is “hard to navigate.” I go farther & say it’s opaque at least to someone w. little background in this subject. But I’ll give it another go before giving up.

    Peter Westwood

    (@westi)

    20 years, 10 months ago

    URLs go straight in the domain blacklist.

    Note that you only want the last two or three elements of the url depending on the country it is from.

    For:
    mypokersite.example.com
    Use:
    example.com

    For:
    mypokersite.example.org.uk
    Use:
    example.org.uk

    For:
    mypoker.site.example.com
    Use:
    example.com

    I’m not sure about email addresses – it maybe that the url part is checked against the domain blacklist but I don’t know for sure.

    Thread Starter richards1052

    (@richards1052)

    20 years, 10 months ago

    The troll has used this e mail most times he’s struck my site:
    [email protected]

    I don’t want to ban anyone from earthlink.net from commenting, just howardm1.

    He’s not using a URL though I have had trolls who do, which is why I asked about them.

    A question about banning urls via the domain blacklist. Won’t the examples you listed actually ban anyone from example.com who tries to comment? How do you ban say, howardm1.earthlink.net?

    Thread Starter richards1052

    (@richards1052)

    20 years, 10 months ago

    Westi said:
    If you have a particular word to match in the content, you can use the words you would have previously added to the WordPress list, you want to add Regex Content entries like so : /spammersfavouriteword/

    Would this be proper format for Regex Content?

    /Jewisly uneducated/

    The reason I ask is that I did enter this phrase fr. the troll’s comment into Regex Content. Yesterday, SK2 caught this comment & sent it to moderation. I left it in moderation & didn’t take any further action.

    Then today, the troll successfully published the very same content. For the life of me, I can’t figure out why SK2 caught the comment yesterday & let it through today.

    Is there something else here that I’m not seeing?

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