EduGlu Sandbox

I just upgraded to wp-mollom 0.6.0 and it has a bunch of additions and fixes. If anyone has problems with it, please let me know asap.

Mollom’s been doing a simply outstanding job of blocking spam lately, after the warm-up period. Unfortunately, it appears to be doing a bang-up job of blocking legitimate, breathing humans who are trying (and failing) to comment.

I switched to mollom for antispam on my blog one week ago, using the wp-mollom plugin.

I’ve found several comment-spam campaign management applications mentioned in my blog’s referrer stats. Most appear to be from Turkey - is that the new hotbed of spam?

And, so far, all appear to be .aspx applications.

The referrer logs for my blog just turned up a tool used by someone who is apparently a commercial spam publisher to track various spam campaigns. Interesting.

I’ve been having a fair number of spam comments get tgrouh the filters on my blog. I’ve tried Akismet. I’ve tried SpamKarma2. I’ve tried Akismet AND SpamKarma2.

I just got this spam on my blog - it got through Akismet, as so many spams do lately, but it’s worth posting (at least in image form so the spammer doesn’t get any juice from it):

It’s my blog, and I get to determine what is spam and what is not. The latest round of human-generated spam is getting past the automated spamblocks because the comments look valid. They’re natural language, often on topic, and occasionally even interesting or insightful - or relevant to the post being spammed.

The spam problem has been the bane of openly available “web 2.0″ sites since, well, forever. Everyone universally hates spam. Everyone, universally, wants to see it go away. Why is it still a problem?

My blog has been receiving spam in what looks to be a new wave of spam attacks. First, the spammers seed the whitelist by posting apparently innocuous comments with no URLs, or with a URL that doesn’t contain spam. Then, once they’re in, they wait a bit and then throw the switch. The spam starts a’comin’ and it sneaks through Spam Karma 2. Very annoying.