Comments on: Winning the Fight Against Comment Spam

By: anizeen

anizeen — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:05:35 +0000

This comments timeout is quite interesting, thanks!

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:43:53 +0000

What about those dohickey’s which require you to read some letters and number that have been twisted and blurred and then enter them into the form? Aren’t those effective or have spammers gotten tools that can read and handle those automatically? Wouldn’t this obviate the need for these other measures? (I have no idea if WordPress supports this or you can use these dohickey’s with WordPress, but if not, I feel we should lobby for it.)

By: Twist

Twist — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:23:39 +0000

I also use WordPress and I have to say that there is an even better solution than the one you are currently using. I use Askimet as well but it is never even triggered thanks to the Math Comment Spam Protection plug-in. In order for anyone to post a comment they have to answer a very simple math problem. I believe that there is a similar plug-in available for Movable Type as well but I switched to WordPress a few years ago so I can't remember what it was called.

By: Tim Householder

Tim Householder — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:17:25 +0000

Please forgive me if this is a silly question, but does Lunar Pages offer WordPress? If not, how do I tie WordPress to my website?
Thanks,
Tim

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:17:10 +0000

I’d definitely like to see more on this in future issues, Mitch. As always tho I truly appreciate your efforts to help out us small webmasters