{"id":439,"date":"2006-11-06T09:01:02","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T07:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/temporaer.net\/2006-11-06\/fight-against-comment-spam-in-wordpress-2\/"},"modified":"2014-02-26T15:46:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T13:46:13","slug":"fight-against-comment-spam-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/temporaer.net\/en\/2006-11-06\/fight-against-comment-spam-in-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight against Comment Spam in WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As some might have noticed, this blog was down for several hours\/days in the last few weeks.<br \/>\nThe reason for this was COMMENT SPAM.<br \/>\nIn the beginning (around 6 months ago) I thought on getting along with it without countermeasure. But spam rose to a climax of about 30 per day. I&#8217;ve received somewhat 1000 unsolicited comments, only two of them were published \u2013 by accident. This is due to the very well-done comment-handling tools in <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a>. But I like to know what people are writing on my site, so I am getting an e-mail whenever a comment needs approvement. So it got an unbearable situation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Solutions: Turing-Test, collaborative fight?!<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first solution, that came into my mind was <em>CAPTCHA<\/em>. I don&#8217;t wan&#8217;t to explain the whole story of Captchas, as there&#8217;s for example <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CAPTCHA\">a comprehensive article on Captchas in Wikipedia<\/a>.<br \/>In short it&#8217;s a Turing-Test. There are disadvantages:\n<ol>\n<li>Rather complicated to implement.<\/li>\n<li>Many captcha implementations are inefficient and do <em>not<\/em> protect against programs, as  <a href=\"http:\/\/sam.zoy.org\/pwntcha\/\">Sam Hocevar explains on his website<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Many are inaccessible or even more complicated to implement<\/li>\n<li>There are even other ways to go around captchas, as marvellous Cory Doctorow already has posted in his blog entry \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2004\/01\/27\/solving_and_creating.html\">Solving and creating captchas with free porn<\/a>\u201d in 2004<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t tried a captcha.<\/p>\n<p>to be continued\u2026<\/p>\n<p><!--Second is <em>Bad Behaviour. It's a \n\nThird is Maths.\n\nimprovements, but no deliverance so far\n--><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As some might have noticed, this blog was down for several hours\/days in the last few weeks. The reason for this was COMMENT SPAM. In the beginning (around 6 months ago) I thought on getting along with it without countermeasure. But spam rose to a climax of about 30 per day. 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