Don’t you hate it? Now blogs are hit by SPAM. I wonder why people will go all the way out to create junks that people do not read. It is like creating more garbage. At the end of the day, who benefit from it? The software company that produce anti spam ware. It is so annoying.
My blogs just attracted SPAM a few weeks back. Initially it was 1 or 2 in a week, slowly increasing to 5 per day. Last week, it was worst, it went up to 10 per day. I decided to put a stop to it.
I upgraded my blog software, WordPress to 1.5.2 (not sure now whether it is the latest) and install a third party anti-spam ware called SpamKarma2 by DrDave.
(Source: http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/).
It has been catching spam up to 50 per day and allowed genuine comments to go through. SpamKarma2 only work for WordPress 1.5.1 and above. If you have an old version, I suggest you upgrade. For this upgrade, it only takes 5 minutes to do it. Remember to backup before changing.
I am not sure whether there is any anti spam ware for blogspot, anyone out there know? I have lots of friends who are using blogspot who wants to throw spam to the garbage bin. If you know of any, please comment.
For blogspot, to avoid spam the only things I know is turn on the word verification feature but I didn’t use that. Believe me or not, my blog have ZERO spam! 🙂 Perhaps it’s because I have take out the listing of my blog from blogspot.
p/s: Attracted spam means your blog is popular mah! 😛
hehe… I don’t like the word verification thingy… coz some of the words are so long and hard to read!
hence… I do the stupid thingy of deleting one-by-one as soon as I received email from comment 😛
yup, i also hate those word verfication things, a do i do what egghead does… permanently delete off one by one… so sien one of the first few people reading after the blog is freshly posted are spams hor…
For blogspot users, can try add this code
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW" />to the header of the template, just beside the code , this code might helps to prevent spam, not very sure but I have never got spam since added this code to my template.
I not yet ungrade to 1.5.2 leh, and I don’t think I install any anti-spam plug in also, yesterday got 6 spamming, thanks goodness today don’t see any yet.