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Not sure why, but for the past couple of days several comments left by SEB regulars have ended up in the Akismet spam queue. This happened for a couple days a few months back and then it settled down so I’m hoping it will do the same this time around. In the meantime if you . . . → Read More: SEB’s spam filter is being overly aggressive at the moment. This is going to be very long so bear with me. A little under two weeks ago I got the following email: Subject: Link spam issues From: Mike Hickmon les You probably do not realize it but your site has spam linked my site with hundreds of links causing my rankings to drop. can . . . → Read More: Mike Hickmon of besthomemadenergy.com is a comment spamming asshole. I’ve long ago gotten used to the near-constant comment, trackback, and referrer spamming that comes with running a blog—trackbacks got so bad I turned them off rather than have to clean them up every day—but now there’s two new tactics spammers have been using that are annoying as hell. Or at least they’re new to . . . → Read More: Spammers are now targeting sites with Wikis. I just deleted a comment spam that was refreshingly honest. Well, the spam itself wasn’t, but the website it linked to was. The comment, left by a “Frank”, was ironically put into a thread wherein I bitched about porn spam in the guestbook app that SEB once had in the past. His comment consisted of . . . → Read More: At least he was honest about his intentions… Got the following bit of spam today: From: Some Dumb Spammer Subject: What are Hangnails? Dear Sir/Madam, [Dumbass Website Removed] is a popular question answer website. Some of our users asked the above question, and we think you are the domain expert who can provide a great answer to it. Can you help to answer . . . → Read More: Apparently I’m an “expert” on the topic of Hangnails. I don’t tend to get a lot of spam at work, but every so often one or two bits will get through the filters and catch my eye. Today I got one with the following subject line: With all your faults she loves you still, cause you use right antiEDs. It took me a moment . . . → Read More: Spammers need a lesson in basic logic. The guys at Hop Studios have just released version 1.0 of their Defensio Combo module for EE. We’ve been testing it for awhile here at SEB and I’m happy to say that I like it better than Akismet. It makes use of the Defensio Anti-Spam service which not only learns from spam and flags it . . . → Read More: Defensio Combo anti-spam module now available for ExpressionEngine. Things are still a bit wonky with Defensio so I gave Justin some data on the comments being falsely marked as spam as well as some spammy ones falsely marked as OK and he’s going to go do that voodoo that he do and hopefully fix it up right. Meanwhile we’re back on Akismet until . . . → Read More: We’re back on Akismet for the time being. [Update 2:] So I switched back to Akismet and forgot to put the API key back in. Comments should be working now. As you know we’re beta testing the Defensio module for EE and, like any beta test, there’s bound to be some hiccups. Right now the module is marking every comment as spam and . . . → Read More: Comments are a little wonky at the moment. Justin Crawford of HOP Studios has created a new anti-comment spam module combo for ExpressionEngine that makes use of the Defensio service and we’re giving it a go here at SEB. It’s similar to Akismet in most respects, but gives a little more control over how comments are handled. So for the moment I’ve disabled . . . → Read More: Testing out Defensio anti-spam system. |
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