Comments on: Fighting Blog Spam

By: My Homepage

My Homepage — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:54:53 +0000

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By: Steven Rothberg

Steven Rothberg — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:42:43 +0000

Yeah, we’re using a plug-in for the math captcha question and it has been working VERY well. We’ve gone from 100 to 200 spam comments a day to a handful. It isn’t perfect, but is manageable now.

By: WordPress Installation

WordPress Installation — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:03:09 +0000

My dad always said, locked doors will only keep honest people out. I ignored a blog for 2 months, was erasing comments for 2 days. Zero spammers are great results. I’ve always wondered how much better the math or question captcha holds up against the ever popular recaptcha. WordPress’s best defense is askimet but they still break in… I’m going to try the math question captcha. Are there any plugins?

Thanks for the post.

By: TeleSign Matt

TeleSign Matt — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:52:46 +0000

telesign.com.I totally agree with Sean on the demise of CAPTCHA. I also started working with a company called TeleSign whose phone verification solutions have created spam free environments on a multitude of websites. Their PhoneID technology has the capability to detect fraudsters trying to defeat traditional phone verification models by rooting out VOIP and pre paid cellular devices used to thwart a two factor approach. Their website is http://www.telesign.com.

By: Sean Whitley

Sean Whitley — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:44:21 +0000

Hey,

We just did a webinar on SPAM and the Death of CAPTCHA. We provide real-time phone verification solutions as a CAPTCHA alternative. Instead of answering a simple questions or CAPTCHA that spammers can create bots to defeat and automate, they register a phone number to their account and receive a one time code at that number. This Out-Of-Band verification prevents bots from automating the process and spamming your blogsites. We provide our solutions to some of the largest sites in the world.

If you have any further questions, feel free to reach out to me.

By: Steven Rothberg

Steven Rothberg — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:41:50 +0000

Thank you for the comment and insight into what your blog sees, Pete. I’m sort of happy that it isn’t just my blog that suffers from the problem of spam but I’m not happy that the problem also impacts you. Wouldn’t it be great if the problem just impacted the blogs run by the spammers?

I suspect that this is NOT so much an issue of people with too much time on their hands using that time to post spam comments. Those would largely be posted manually so they’d get around the captcha, math question, and other such anti-spam techniques that come close to eliminate the automated spam. Since we added the math question early yesterday, we’ve had zero spam comments. I’m sure we’ll get some but I can deal with some. But when we were getting hundreds a day and maybe one percent of the total comments were “real” like yours, well, that was overwhelming.

By: Pete Radloff

Pete Radloff — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:38:05 +0000

I definitely see this as an issue. And, while my blog doesn’t get a shade f the traffic yours does, it’s still a pervasive problem. I always wonder, is it people with too much time on their hands, or just a really poor marketing technique to drive traffic to some garbage site? Good luck with the new method of combating this!