{"id":140,"date":"2004-12-12T23:25:14","date_gmt":"2004-12-12T23:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/development\/2004\/12\/fight-spam\/"},"modified":"2021-06-04T11:58:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T11:58:34","slug":"fight-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/2004\/12\/fight-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comment spam is a problem that hits many blog systems, but fortunately on WordPress there are some very robust ways to deal with this scourge. We&#8217;re building some important protections into 1.3 but in the meantime you should take action to protect yourself. Our own Podz has put together a great resource on the Codex on how to <a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Combat_Comment_Spam\">Combat Comment Spam<\/a> that has <strong>dozens<\/strong> of excellent methods, and here are some of the highlights:<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/mookitty.co.uk\/devblog\/category\/kittens-spaminator\/\">Spaminator<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mookitty.co.uk\/devblog\/category\/kittens-spaminator\/\">Kitten&#8217;s Spaminator<\/a> has protections against floods of comments and assigns score values to different characteristics of comments. It also has code included to give a delayed response to known spammers, which slows down their bot networks.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unknowngenius.com\/blog\/static\/spam-karma\">Spam Karma<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>D<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unknowngenius.com\/blog\/static\/spam-karma\">r Dave&#8217;s Spam Karma<\/a> takes a multi-faceted approach that uses literally dozens of characteristics of the comment, from the age of the post to how quickly the comment was posted, to decide a score or &#8220;karma&#8221; for a comment, much like the Spaminator. It also allows people to increase the karma of their comment if they&#8217;re on the edge by verifying an image or an email.<\/p>\n<h4>Stay up to date<\/h4>\n<p>Again these are just two of dozens of plugins available, so watch the <a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Combat_Comment_Spam\">Combat Comment Spam<\/a> page and the <a href=\"https:\/\/planet.wordpress.org\/\">WordPress Planet<\/a> for the latest and greatest. You can also read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jayallen.org\/comment_spam\/\">Jay Allen&#8217;s Comment Spam Clearinghouse<\/a> blog for some background of the comment spam fight and his efforts on the <a href=\"http:\/\/movabletype.org\/\">Movable Type<\/a> side of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment spam is a problem that hits many blog systems, but fortunately on WordPress there are some very robust ways to deal with this scourge. We&#8217;re building some important protections into 1.3 but in the meantime you should take action to protect yourself. Our own Podz has put together a great resource on the Codex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pZhYe-2g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2874,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/2874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}