Posted by The Foo in Blogs and Blogging

Been receiving tremendous amount of blog post spam from spambots lately. Some of them even extend more than 100 lines or so with useless advertisement links. I have written about this before but I still can’t believe how stupid the posts are — there are two spam posts that I get a lot i.e. “You have good guest book” (I don’t even have one!) and the other one says, “You have good site, what is your designer? I wants become friends with you.” (Yes, with broken English and all)

I have since installed Peter’s Anti Spam Image plugin. Those of you who comment now have to type in a word that is shown in the image box. I chose this plugin because it does not discrimate against users who have cookies disabled and I can pick my own fun random words to display. Sorry for the inconvenience and the extra field to type in but those pesky spammers just spoil it for everyone. I know it won’t stop spammers but it may reduce some of the spam from those pesky spambots on the net.

If you have any trouble commenting, don’t hesitate to contact me. Any feedback on the usage of the plugin is much appreciated.

2 Responses to “Pesky Spambots”

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   Mr. Fabulous said: @ 3:09 pm
   November 29th, 2006 

   
   

   I love this plug-in, I started using it this week.

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   kristarella said: @ 7:52 pm
   November 30th, 2006 

   
   

   They are annoying. My comments have been broken on my photoblog, now that I’ve fixed them I hope I don’t get inundated with spam.

   I apologise for my discriminatory Spam Karma, from my end it works well though so I love it.

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