Yea, comment spammers suck, I feel for you.

I meant I had assumed it was already in place on the forum, not assumed it was in place here

hmm.. now I think about it more, what you said could fit with you getting that. Meh, its late and I’m confused, anyway i agree that registration on blogs is annoying but for forums its virtually essential to fend off the waves of spam.

and muchos gracias for the eye-roll guy tip
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Matt – you need to put two colons on the roll emoticon – one in front, and one in the back like so: :roll:

Email registration may work for forums, but it is annoying. I random people who just stumble upon my blog be able to post a comment. I personally hate when blogs require registration. It is usually to much effort, especially if all I want to post is 3 lines agreeing or disagreeing with the post…

turns out the rolling eyes smiley doesnt work here, everyone mentally replace the “:roll” in my previous post with a little yellow dude rolling his eyes

A message board I frequent has been bombarded with spam recently, a lot for what they say is definitely celebrity porno (e.g. “Britney Spears brutally fucked”) regular porno, various drugs or just other random companies.

After much discussion of how to deal with it (mainly involving making more people moderators so that theres more eyes looking for spam and removing it) the admin finally added an email verification to the signup process.

I had assumed that was already in place but apparently not :roll

Lmao, I wish I only got 20-30 a day. Askimet fails about 1/1000 times for me. Pretty effective. last time it failed, it took me a few times of re-reading it to make sure it was spam. It was so relevant to the topic at hand it was amazing. It just got dead on lucky with its comment lol.

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WordPress already does that. It blocks duplicate posts made within very short time.

you could probably let a script check if a comment is exactly posted twice or more times. so u can delete it……

My theory is that these scripts running on infected zombies churn out gibberish by default. Unless you provide them with advertising payload they simply spam garbage.

Either that or they use the garbage spams for calibration and tuning of the scripts. You randomly spam pages with a unique set of keywords, and then screen scrape for these keywords. If anything slips through, you do a thorough attack crawling through the links and injecting the payload into every comment…

But I’m just guessing here. There might be another reason.

Anyways, I’m close to a 100 blocked bots and it’s only around 6 hours since installation. Heh…

Some of the spam comments I get are bizarre. Just lists of strange terms and weird links. I can’t see how they can possibly do anything good.