Tag Archives: Spam

bb-NoSpamUser

Thursday, November 6th, 2008 – 6:58:49 pm

bb-NoSpamUser is ready!  It’s a very simple plugin, with less code than the WordPress version.  Unfortunately for all of the non-up-to-date hosts out there, it requires PHP5, but if somebody could port it to PHP4, I’d be glad to include the code.
The logic is simple: When somebody goes to the registration page — either the [...]

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Automated Forum Moderation

Monday, November 3rd, 2008 – 10:28:10 am

I was thinking today: there are a lot of kinds of human-generated spam that can be blocked by an automated script.  (The bot-generated spam is almost always blocked by Akismet.)

Double posting — Most forums have a rule against this, but it still happens.  Sometimes it’s allowed in a certain forum (like the sandbox on my [...]

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Googlebot is spamming me o.0

Thursday, October 18th, 2007 – 5:58:28 pm

I’m notified on every 404 error via an rss feed by my blog.  When googlebot started indexing non-existant pages, I got spammed.  The feature that I installed to be a notification of broken links turned into a way that googlebot (unknowingly) spammed me!

You can see this WordPress.org support forums topic for the way that I solved the problem.

~Ben

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The blog wants a cookie.

Thursday, July 12th, 2007 – 4:37:49 pm

I had to delete the new anti-spam procedure because it was stopping people from posting.

Oh well, the blog should go on a diet anyway

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Worries about spam

Friday, July 6th, 2007 – 12:01:14 pm

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