Comments on: Die Spammers! Die! Part 2

By: Dave Turnbull » Implemented some Anti-Spam

Dave Turnbull » Implemented some Anti-Spam — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:06:19 +0000

[...] actually get any spam, but I thought it best to be proactive. First I read Die Spammers Die and Die Spammers Die Part 2 by John [...]

By: John Chow

John Chow — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:23:24 +0000

I’ve disable the comment timeout for now. If the other countermeasures do a good enough job of limiting the spam level then I’ll leave it off.

By: clvezlys

clvezlys — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:55:57 +0000

While I do like the idea of disableing comments for posts older then x days, I still think it’s not the best way out. You have quite a popular blog. Most people actually want to read as much as they can. And what if they want to comment too?

Then again, you post quite frequent, so there’s plenty to read for the past 20 days. Still, I think disallowing people to comment on old articles is a bad thing.

By: Raghu

Raghu — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:28:09 +0000

Ever since John introduced this new threaded comment plugin I have been facing one problem

1. I come into the site make a few comments and get out.
2. Others come in and provide responses to my comments
3. When I come back I would be more interested in seeing if people have left ‘responses’ to my comments

But the sorry part is that there is no way I can do that. I need to open every blog post and check the comments section

If this a possible plugin idea ?

By: Raghu

Raghu — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:25:53 +0000

I am really loving these plugins that are provided by wordpress - am waiting to move over from blogger when I can implement all these plugins

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:39:35 +0000

I used to have a very large spam comment problem but one day, it just stopped.

I have always set my blog to allow comments to go through when a post is 7 days old or newer unless it has links in it. If the comment has links then it must be moderated.

By: My New Choice

My New Choice — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 05:58:55 +0000

Thanks John, great to see such a timely response and I now see that I wasn’t the only one to goof on this.

By: Doug Karr

Doug Karr — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 05:31:18 +0000

Don’t comments on old posts revive those posts for search engines to reindex? I’m not sure I want to cut off old posts for commenting if it’s still a quality article that draws attention… especially if some user generated content is added.

Thoughts?

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:57:45 +0000

It’s amazing what you can do with Wordpress. I’m liking all these plug-in options more and more. As everyone hears of new ones, please keep them coming!

By: Kenric

Kenric — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 03:09:14 +0000

I don’t know about the 20 days comment thing. The key to a high traffic blog is that your posts stand the test of time. For example, the article about 0% Credit Cards can be good for years. Disabling comments on those posts is like locking a popular forum topic.