Spam, spam everywhere and not a moment to think. I swear, if I could monetize the amount of spam comments that’s been thrown into Akismet’s queue lately I could quit the day job. So when my daily comment spam had grown from a mere 20-30 per day to 50 per day then 70 and now above 100 on a daily basis I started to want for another anti-spam type plugin that might help things out a bit more.
You see, each spam comment coming into the blog, even if it is caught by Akismet or Spam Karma 2 which I use as a backup in case the Akismet servers get the hiccups, uses up a wee bit of bandwidth. Now multiply this wee bit of bandwidth by a factor of 100 or more and the wasted bandwidth per day starts to add up. Now my “spamment” count per day is nothing compared to some of the more popular blogs out there where the count can run into the thousands or better per day but the increase is steady so I’d much rather catch it before it gets out of hand.
Remembering that I once read something about another popular spam bouncer that stopped the spam at the doorstep so to speak, I wandered over to the lady who knows all, Lorelle on Wordpress, to find the article I read a month or so ago and found what I was looking for.
As of now, I’ve had Bad Behavior 2 installed into the backend of Just Thinkin’ for about 5 hours and as of just a few minutes ago when I checked, this plugin had thrown 67 spam bots off the premises before they got within 10 feet of the door. Bad Behavior works by denying automated spambots access to your PHP-based website which is the way a Wordpress blog works. Now of course not all spamments are caused by spam bots—some are actually human too but I have to believe this group of flesh and bone “spam-i-diots” are in the minority which so far has seems to have proved out since Akismet has only had to catch 2 spamments that got through to the 67 thrown off my lawn.
So now that I have all these spam hating goons hanging about the premises keeping the rabble out I’m going to turn off the math equations for the comments thus relieving the frustrations of my many readers of having to rewrite their comments or giving up altogether when they miss doing the math (I’ve been caught like this myself on other blogs I’ve commented on, arrggh).
So here’s to a spam free world that most likely will never come until people decide to grow up and stop making other people’s lives miserable just because they can so until then…let’s go stomp some spam.
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March 28th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
I’m not the lady who knows all. I only know a little, but I thank you for thinking this through and getting to the truth of it. The attacks on our servers and databases from comment spam is so totally out of control. Instead of just wanting some money for every comment spam, I think comment spammers should be paying us for wasting our bandwidth and server energies.
Good for you!
March 28th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Thanks for turning off that maths questions. It was driving me insane that it never worked first time round for me.
March 29th, 2007 at 8:55 am
-Lorelle,
You’re too humble. Take your compliments as they come m’lady, you’ve helped a lot of people for quite awhile now just because you want too—including me. You don’t ask for much in return either. Something to be said for that. Hmmm, it appears I’ve misspelled your name. How rude of me. I’ll fix that right off.
-Cat,
Glad to oblige. you can thank the lady above for clueing me in on another way to throw spam off the property and stop torturing my readers (all 5 of them :P).
March 31st, 2007 at 6:33 pm
The other day I had a deluge of spam comments which managed to sneak through my maths question.
So now I have installed spam karma and everything seems okay at the moment. Body parts crossed.