Pages Tagged “badbehavior”
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- Spam Switch
With the recent rash of Trackback spam, I finally bit the bullet and am now experimenting with Akismet in addition to Spam Karma. I’m not sure how well they work together, or, at this point, which plugin processes the comment first. Update: I’m trying Akismet on its own for now. Or, more precisely, Akismet as […]
- Tired of Pingback Spam
Bad Behavior and Spam Karma do a good job of fighting most of the spam that hits this site, but over the last few weeks I’ve seen a (relatively) new kind that seems to require manual intervention: pingback spam. It took a long time for spammers to really start abusing pingbacks, because of two things: […]
- Trackback spam is back
I’m surprised it took so long, but trackback spammers seem to have finally figured out that they can sail past the simplest check against trackback spam—does the calling page actually link to the page being trackbacked?–by temporarily adding that link. Or maybe they have for a while, and they’ve only just started getting past my […]
- The Good Old Days
I stumbled across an archived mailing list post from a few years ago where I remarked on how little spam targeted WordPress blogs at the time. How things change!