I’m still receiving about 5,000 spam pings per day on my website. Since trackbacks and comments are turned off, none are getting through. I also thought about re-activating my old Blogger site, but as soon as I made my first post I received 6 comment spams (not from my personal gambling spammer though) in the first 15 minutes.
My key difficulties seem to be:
1. Spammers can post to deleted nodes and I cannot stop them unless I do a global "no comments allowed".
2. I can’t block-delete a number of comments in Drupal, so I have to individually review each comment spam before deletion – and these can quickly get into the hundreds.
Yes, I have the spam module activated, but it doesn’t address the deleted node problem. Am I the only person who has ever deleted a blog post?
So my situation is that I want to keep the +500 posts that I have made on this site. I also like most of Drupal’s functions. However, I am seriously looking for alternatives. Perhaps archiving my Drupal blog and adding a link to a better blogging platform would be a solution. Unfortunately this would mean running two systems. Another option would be to try to transfer the database to another system. Has anyone ever transferred from Drupal to another system?
Comments to – hjarche(AT)gmail(DOT)com
> Spammers can post to> Spammers can post to deleted nodes and I cannot stop them unless I do a global "no comments allowed".
The 2.0.9 spam filter (released today, August 25’th) will block comments posted to deleted nodes.
> I can’t block-delete a number of comments in Drupal, so I have to individually review each comment spam
> before deletion – and these can quickly get into the hundreds.
Go to the Administer >> Spam >> Comments page. It will allow you to bulk delete spam comments.
Thanks for the tip :-)Thanks for the tip :-)