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I give up

November 29th, 2004 in rant and kvetch Tags: No Tags.

I’m done fighting the waves of comment spam. I just mass deleted a couple thousand comments awaiting moderation- a few of which were probably legitimate (sorry Rogi, Bob and Gary) but just got caught up in the wave of mass deletions.

Unless WordPress comes up with a way of dealing with the 200-300 comments I’m getting an hour lately - better than the email authorization system I’ve got in place now - something that just stops them cold, so they can’t even get into the moderation queue like they can now and clog up my inbox and database - I’m ready to pack this in and try another blogging system.

Suggestions? Ideally I’d like something that’s cheap, and has something like a captcha or other type of authorization that ensures I’m not getting comments from a spam bot.

6 Responses to “I give up”  

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  1. 1 Joy Nov 29th, 2004 at 12:03 pm

    Don’t know if you’ll get this, but I know one person is using Haloscan (http://www.haloscan.com/) to resolve the spam problem.

  2. 2 Gary Nov 29th, 2004 at 8:50 pm

    Have you given any thought to Expression Engine? It now works with Ecto. And Leo Laporte gives it 5 stars.

    http://www.pmachine.com/

    Other than that, I know very little about it . . .

  3. 3 Charli Nov 29th, 2004 at 9:11 pm

    Spam Karma! It’s on my Word Press blog now and it’s zotting the spam like a charm.

  4. 4 Daniel Maskit Nov 30th, 2004 at 12:07 pm

    I’ve been using Blosxom and just get occasional spam comments, but maybe my site is just too obscure? It doesn’t use email for comments, that probably helps.

  5. 5 gse Nov 30th, 2004 at 6:39 pm

    I gave up similarly a year or so ago, and just started allowing comments again. MT-Blacklist must be working pretty well, because the amount of spam I’ve gotten is very small and by the sound of it, it’s gotten pretty bad.

    So anyway, you might consider Movable Type. It’s not real expensive and it’s a pretty nice piece of software. But there must be WordPress solutions too…?

  6. 6 lee Dec 8th, 2004 at 1:08 pm

    I switched to ExpressionEngine (linked above) after a spam attack on a Movable Type
    blog on our server took down the server. 150 comments spams in less than five minutes.
    If you don’t want to pay $99 for the competitive upgrade to EE, pMachinePro at $45 is
    a good choice. It also has capchas to keep the bots out of your comments.

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