Comment spam woes
Aug 22
Either the spammer managed to work out an OCR bot that was even better than reCAPTCHA’s very own, or the reCAPTCHA WordPress Plugin simply isn’t working for me.
EDIT [4:15 pm]: Wow, I went to my Global Dashboard to check out my stats just now, and alas I see this:
I Googled just those two keywords, and found my earlier post about a spammer targeting only one post as the very first result! Wow, seriously…
I’ve installed the Comment Timeout plugin just to be a bit stricter. Besides, right now BoltPress isn’t gathering many readers, and those already reading my blog don’t bother to leave comments, so why leave old posts open to spammers?
Hi,
This actually means that recaptcha *is* working for you. See our FAQ on this matter:
HELP, I’m still seeing comment spam
There are two common issues that make reCAPTCHA appear to be broken, but are actually not problems.
* Moderation emails: reCAPTCHA marks comments as spam, so if you get moderation emails when spam comments are sent, you will get moderation emails for all spam comments with reCAPTCHA. We highly recommend turning off moderation emails with reCAPTCHA.
* Trackbacks and Pingbacks: reCAPTCHA can’t do anything about pingbacks and trackbacks. You can disable pingbacks and trackbacks in Options | Discussion | Allow link notifications from other Weblogs (pingbacks and trackbacks).
Ben
on August 23, 2007 at 12:31 pm.
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Hi Ben, those two points in the FAQ don’t seem to be the problem.
BoltClock
on August 23, 2007 at 3:38 pm.
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