Bogus Comments

  • rpbecker

    (@rpbecker)


    15 years, 8 months ago

    I’m being inundated with bogus comments on my two blogs. They all lead back to a single Russian host. I’ve been deleting them one by one, deleting the comment and the user listing.

    Are they a threat in some important way? Is there a way to block comments from this host?

    Thanks.

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  • David Gwyer

    (@dgwyer)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    Try using Akismet Plugin.

    http://akismet.com/

    Thread Starter rpbecker

    (@rpbecker)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks, hopefully this will do the trick.

    FishDogFish

    (@fishdogfish)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    You can also set your blog to require users to be registered and logged in to post a comment, that will make it difficult for spam bots to drop links on you.

    Thread Starter rpbecker

    (@rpbecker)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks for the idea. But it’s the registration process itself that is being abused and I don’t want to make leaving a legitimate comment difficult. I’m using wp-spamfree plugin that works well in keeping the comments section clean. I used to have issues there too.

    FishDogFish

    (@fishdogfish)

    15 years, 8 months ago

    You wrote:

    I’m being inundated with bogus comments on my two blogs. They all lead back to a single Russian host. I’ve been deleting them one by one, deleting the comment and the user listing.

    So how are you being inundated with bogus comments if the plugin is keeping the comments section clean?

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