Comments on: Forgive my spam, and…Wall St. on the the Big IPO…

By: Amy Alkon

Amy Alkon — Mon, 31 May 2004 20:22:01 +0000

PS and spammers don’t change URLs for every comment – you can ban the main name of the URL (as a catchall). I think you mean they’re on rolling IPs. Aren’t you a tech guy? I’m a tech retard, and even I know that.

By: Amy Alkon

Amy Alkon — Mon, 31 May 2004 20:20:47 +0000

Have you not heard of MT blacklist? Suggest you get it post-haste.

By: Geoffrey Gonzalez

Geoffrey Gonzalez — Wed, 26 May 2004 05:23:11 +0000

Comment Spamming? It gives me a headache.

I'm not that teckie, So I'll vote for long registration for entries.

By: Sergey Petrenko

Sergey Petrenko — Sun, 23 May 2004 20:55:09 +0000

I use MT-Bayesian - http://mt-plugins.org/archives/entry/bayesian.php - it is easy to install and maintain. It requires just a few minutes per week to train. And, what is very useful - if a comment will be recognized as a spam one, it just won`t be showed on a page.

By: Stuart Watson

Stuart Watson — Thu, 20 May 2004 21:48:20 +0000

John,

Expression Engine offers CAPTCHA for both member registration and comment posting (A CAPTCHA is a computer-generated test that humans can pass but computer programs cannot). Great platform. Very flexible. Used Pmachine Pro for Real Simple Shopping.

Thanks

Stuart

By: John Battelle

John Battelle — Thu, 20 May 2004 14:42:10 +0000

Chris, you’re right, it’s probably that no one wanted to tip their hand. But the sentiment in the room was pretty consistent – they felt rebuked by the fresh faced upstarts out in California, kids who have never known failure or loss. And this on the heels of two terrible years for their industry, with scandal, losses, criminal investigations. Google’s letter felt, to them, a bit like piling on. I shed no tears for the industry, but is my impression of thier response.

By: Chris Zaharias

Chris Zaharias — Thu, 20 May 2004 07:16:51 +0000

Of course no one’s gonna raise their hand, this is, in fact, a dutch auction we’re talking about. Six months from now when you ask “Who owns Google shares?”, a good 50% will raise their hands.

By: Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz — Wed, 19 May 2004 20:42:13 +0000

Tim, that works best for me. Without MT Blacklist and that thing built into Movable Type 2.661 where you can set it so spammers can post more then 2 times in a row within X seconds, I would be dead.

I still get spam, but not as bad as it used to be since I added all of this stuff.

By: Yellow

Yellow — Wed, 19 May 2004 20:07:16 +0000

Use a simple PHP script to block the offending IP addresses (or IP range). Hotscripts.com have loads of different types.

As an alternative look at referencing a blocking script in the relevant MT template page.

Either solution should work.

By: Hulkster

Hulkster — Wed, 19 May 2004 16:51:53 +0000

Hulk hate spammers.
Hulk SMASH spammers.
They keep coming back.
Even Hulk get tired of SMASHING them.

Good luck John …