I’m getting a lot of comment spam from some low-life who is sticking links to an internet gambling site on my blogs. They’re easy to find & erase with Drupal, but still a pain. I like Alan Levine’s solution to disrupt comment spammers, and perhaps I’ll enlist the help of the International Spam Counter Attack Force (SCAF):
They have tools and techniques I could never understand, but with their help, our Trackback scripts were modified to collect some interesting data from our roach visitor. The people who act as local agents for SCAF have the ability to unleash a series of strikes on this person, their assets, records, etc, and once I give the go ahead, the trigger is set to go off at a random time in the future, maybe today, tomorrow, next week, a few months from now.
I’m open to comments and criticism on my blog, but completely unrelated comments that link to a gambling site are not acceptable. Since I pay to maintain this site, it’s my editorial privilege to keep it clean. Here are the multiple hosts from which this roach posts:
61.62.229.235
165.173.60.25
212.234.28.89
195.194.158.17
12.43.53.137
198.252.39.226
81.169.133.166
66.91.206.165
68.44.79.29
193.252.229.134
136.183.135.54
62.47.166.17
165.173.60.25
212.234.28.89
195.194.158.17
12.43.53.137
198.252.39.226
81.169.133.166
66.91.206.165
68.44.79.29
193.252.229.134
136.183.135.54
62.47.166.17
17 Dec: And the roach struck again early this morning (already removed) – any Drupal experts have suggestions?
not sure about 4.4(I’ve got a bad memory) but In drupal cvs
administer>>comments>>approval queue>>
there you see a list of comments – you then click on edit… and then you can ‘approve’
its worth the upgrade to 4.5 or HEAD – administration is made easier with a new tabbed administration interface for modules.
andre
didn’t workWell, that didn’t work. I posted a test comment as an anon user, which showed up in the administer page, but I could not find the actual comment so I could not approve it. hmmm? Checked my other settings and modules and they seemed to be OK.
So if you don’t allow comments to be directly posted by anon users, where to you go to approve them?
spam module?Have you tried the drupal spam module Harold? Just in case….
Comment approvalI couldn’t find a spam module in the x-template config that I have for Drupal 4.4, but I changed the settings so that I have to approve all comments by anonymous users before they are posted. I hope that is not too much of a pain for “real” people who want to comment.
Sounds like 4.5Thanks Andre, but it doesn’t seem to work in 4.4. Time to talk to my host …
The best way to stop spam would be to spend some time in moderating the comments persoanlly rather than relying on any captchas. You can go to the other extreme of not allowing anyone to comment – but then the whole essence of sharing information is lost. At least Yahoo and MSN rewards the commentators with relevant backlinks, so that is a reward which many spammers like to go for.
Thanks, Jim. I’ve now switched to WordPress and most of my problems have been addressed:
http://jarche.com/?p=897