This post first appeared on the old blog. I am duplicating it here.
Comment spam has pushed me over the edge
Okay, I’m done with Nucleus as my blogging software. I like most of it. It is very easy to use, simple to tweak the design (if I ever would have taken the time to actually do it), but I refuse to force people to login to comment. And that appears to be the only way in this software (outside of writing my own scripts to deal with comment spam) to alleviate annoying comments from gambling and sex sites.
So, a couple of things. Within a couple of hours, there will be a new blog up for me at http://www.alanhartung.com/blog/. If you link to me, please change your links to this new address (many of you are still linking to my old, old blogger site, which I redirect the traffic to this formerly new address).
The other thing, if you are a subscriber to my RSS FEED, that feed address will be changing very soon, because it is generated by Nucleus, and the new software will certainly use a different address.
archived posts
I will be keeping the archives from Nucleus up, as I have not yet figured out how to get posts from Nucleus into b2evolution. It may not be able to be done easily enough to justify the time, so I will change the links on the archived pages to point to the new blog, and i will manually link the archive pages from Nucleus on the new blog.
I like this new system… so far. Hopefully the comment spam filters will actually work!
alan
December 22nd, 2004
Do you have any script to share to fight against comment spam in b2evolution?
Sam
February 28th, 2005
Everything is in tbe backend of b2evolution. There’s an “anti-spam” tab in the admin system. If you click the update list regularly, most comment spam and referral spam is cut out from the beginning. When one gets through, there’s a link in the stats in the backend that you click on, and it immediately wipes them out.
Anonymous
February 28th, 2005
Unfortunately, newly added blacklist entries do not act on existing spam, this still requires manual processing. Or did I miss something?
Sam
March 1st, 2005
Sam -
If you add the URL from the comments to your own personal banned list, it will give you the option to delete all of the messages from that domain.
You can also add things like gambling or porn words people use in domains and ban any domain that contains that word at all. It will single out all of the uses already in the comments or referrers.
If it is referral spam, in the stats backend you can click the circle with the line through it and it will set up to ban that domain and delete all comments or post.
Anonymous
March 2nd, 2005
That’s exactly what I call “manual processing”. I’d like a way to click on a single button and process all of it in only one pass, instead of going through all the spammers one by one.
Sam
March 3rd, 2005
How would you identify spam without it being by the URL? I wouldn’t even know how to write a script, or even tell someone smarter than me how to write a script to do that…
If you can think of a way to recognize spam without individual parts of their URL, then someone could write a script to do what you want.
But for me, I’ve found that keeping my anti-spam database updated takes care of 95% of it (and nearly 100% of comment spam).
Anonymous
March 3rd, 2005