Well the steps I introduced to reduce the number of comment spam that was plaguing my website seem to have made an impact.As I meantioned before I added a new step to avoid known spammers by interacting with Project honey Pot. In the first few hours after I added the new features it became apparent [...]
Filed under: Site News by welshtroll on Tuesday, June 3, 2008 | Social tagging: project honey pot > recaptcha > Spam
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It seems the new functionality I added is working wonderfully. In the days since Sunday I've had no spam comments posted (touch wood) although there has been over 500+ hits from possible spammers. It's quite funny that the spammers browser information indicates that they are using Java to run these automated spam scripts and there [...]
Filed under: Coding by welshtroll on Friday, May 30, 2008 | Social tagging: honey pot > recaptcha > Spam > Website
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After quite a bit of learning and creating the custom code needed welshtroll.co.uk is finally using ReCaptcha. An interresting point was the delay I had between switching version, during those 20 minutes I managed to get four spam comments posted. those bots must be working extra hard over the bank holiday weekend. For a quick [...]
Filed under: Site News by welshtroll on Sunday, May 25, 2008 | Social tagging: captcha > Spam > welshtroll
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I recently signed up to reCAPTCHA and have been slowing plotting it's implementation onto this website. I'm not sure if the few spam WOW GOLD adverts I'm getting are from bots or are being processed manually. I'll keep you posted on how it goes.
Filed under: Site News by welshtroll on Friday, December 14, 2007 | Social tagging: Spam > Websites
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