Comment Time Repost Limit?

  • Is there a way to limit commentors from making rapid multiple posts in a short period of time? Perhaps a plugin that would check how long it has been since the person last made a comment. When I look at comment spam it often comes in bursts over a very short time. SlashDot does something like this.

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  • WordPress by default should be throttling this to 15 seconds between comments. This is handled through the wp_allow_comment() function.

    Thread Starter pubwvj

    (@pubwvj)

    Could this time limit be added to the options? That would be helpful.

    wp_allow_comment() is giving me a “too quickly” error every time I try to post a comment on my blog. It doesn’t matter how long I wait or which user I am logged in as.

    Check the date/time on your local PC. How’s it compare to the server’s date/time?

    Ok, well it’s apparently not ‘every time’ but it needs much more than 15 seconds.

    My server and my local PC are both EST.

    I had run into the the error before, but it seemed like it followed the 15 second delay. The only thing I could think that changed between when I saw it before is I just upgraded to WordPress 2.1.

    Found it. Like the person in this thread, I had accidentally set a comment’s timestamp to be Dec 07 instead of Dec 06. Since any post I make now (Feb 07) is not 15 seconds latter than Dec 07, the spam blocker would always be tripped.

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