Freelancer's Office » Plugin http://blog.freelancersoffice.com freelancersoffice.com Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:00:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Akismet helps http://blog.freelancersoffice.com/2008/05/31/akismet-helps/ http://blog.freelancersoffice.com/2008/05/31/akismet-helps/#comments Sat, 31 May 2008 19:15:05 +0000 FreelancersOffice.com http://blog.freelancersoffice.com/2008/05/31/akismet-helps/ It usually helps to reduce the SPAM if the blogger remembers to enable Akismet.  ::pounds head on desk::  Just realized that I had not enabled Akismet on this blog, so that explains the deluge of junk comments I was getting.  Why had I thought that Akismet was automatically enabled when WordPress was installed?  I need to double check the other blogs I was having trouble with comment SPAM on, see if I got Akismet enabled on them or not – I’m betting it’s ‘not’.

]]> http://blog.freelancersoffice.com/2008/05/31/akismet-helps/feed/ 0 A new kind of comment SPAM http://blog.freelancersoffice.com/2008/05/31/a-new-kind-of-comment-spam/ http://blog.freelancersoffice.com/2008/05/31/a-new-kind-of-comment-spam/#comments Sat, 31 May 2008 18:26:53 +0000 FreelancersOffice.com http://blog.freelancersoffice.com/2008/05/31/a-new-kind-of-comment-spam/ I just got a new kind of comment SPAM, well, actually, I got it a while back, but I just checked it out to see what it really was.  The  thing was a trackback to one of my posts here, but the URL for where the trackback went to was no more than a rerouter that immediately took me to another site that was nothing but a blank page.

It’s getting really annoying when SPAMMERS are targeting everything you make posts about and just generally playing hell with your ability to have a site where people can leave comments, but now it’s getting to where even letting someone leave a trackback to your articles is opening the flood gates for the SPAMMERS.

I get most of this stuff from one country in particular, so I don’t suppose that there is a WordPress Plugin out there anywhere that lets you refuse comments and trackbacks from entire countries, is there?  I really hate to just say”No” to everyone in the country because of one jerk, but that one jerk sends 300+ commens about sex at some of my blogs in a single day and the things change just enough that the SPAM filter on WP does not seem to catch them as being SPAM.

A word filter would work… I don’t suppose there is a WordPress SPAM filter Plugin that filters out all comments that have set words in them is there? :::goes off to hunt for one:::

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