Now I have enabled a simple spam protection to make it bots harder to add comments to my blogs. The reason is in the last week the amount of spam dramatically increased and it was not possible anymore to handle this problem with a blacklist of common spam content.
I don’t like complicated computer generated pictures which are so difficult to read that even humans will become problems to decipher them. That why I am using a WordPress Plugin called Math Comment Spam Protection Plugin from Michael Wöhrer. The user has to solve a simple math equation which is easy enough that nobody should need a calculator for it. For bots it is hopefully a big obstacle to solve 4+2.
So far it works pretty well and no unwelcome comment found its way to the moderator queue or even the frontpage.
August 13th, 2009 at 12:46 am
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August 13th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Looks a bit like Trackback spam. Perhaps a second anti spam modul will follow soon to prevent this kind of spam, too. The Math Comment Spam Protection Plugin defended so far all normal comment spam very well. Still no unwanted comments!
September 1st, 2009 at 8:13 am
hello )
September 1st, 2009 at 8:13 am
spam forever!
September 4th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
OMG! Now they start to calculate! But wait… I will use a problem from work as spam protection. Perhaps a bot solves it
October 16th, 2009 at 10:37 am
I think it may be useful Google is my favorite search engine