I’m now trying the simplest method of fighting comment and trackback spam on this website. The method is simply setting up Options->Discussion (wordpress blogs only) to the following:
The following items are checked:
- Attempt to notify any Weblogs linked to from the article (slows down posting.)
- Allow link notifications from other Weblogs (pingbacks and trackbacks.)
- Allow people to post comments on the article
- Anyone posts a comment
- A comment is held for moderation
- Comment author must fill out name and e-mail
- Comment author must have a previously approved comment
Then, I have ‘2′ in the box that says “Hold a comment in the queue if it contains more than ___ links.
Next, I copied the list of common spam words from http://codex.wordpress.org/Spam_Words and pasted them in the textarea box that says “When a comment contains any of these words in its content, name, URI, e-mail, or IP, hold it in the moderation queue: (Separate multiple words with new lines.)”.
Lastly, I did not place anything in the blacklist box BUT I checked “Blacklist comments from open and insecure proxies.”
That’s it! It works for well for me and it pulled down my problem from 10 spams / day to 1 spam per week.
May 12th, 2007 at 11:26 am
My site’s very new so I haven’t gotten any spam comments yet. Your advice gives me a good proactive solution. Thanks