Preventing Comment Spam
Sep 18

Preventing Comment Spam

Ounce of prevention: Adam Kalsey is in a war against comment spam, and he shares some great ideas here:

“What will probably be the biggest help is the thing that was easiest to do: changing the comment script name.

What else would be effective is changing the names of all the form fields. Making them short random strings would make it impossible for a bot to recognize the comment form using only the field names. People would be able to understand the form because of the labels, but bots would have to implement a large amount of fuzzy logic in order to recognize that ‘Name,’ ‘Your Name:,’ and other forms are really the same thing.”

by Deane   September 18, 2003 8:49 AM    |   Follow Gadgetopia on Twitter

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by wak,   July 26, 2006 2:13 PM  

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by darle,   August 2, 2006 10:41 AM  

hi, my name is gclock.

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by GHD Rettetang Salg,   March 31, 2012 3:49 AM  

Basically it converts every email as a text file to check it for spam and then converts it back to its original format... links:http://www.billige2ghdrettetang.com/

Richard Richard
by Richard,   April 20, 2012 5:59 AM  

Great just what we need

Anonymous
by ,   April 21, 2012 12:13 AM  

Spam filtering is essential for any website with comments enabled. I once built a website on which I did not enable any filter system. I now have 8000 pages of 20 comments per page to remove. Select all, delete. Select all, delete. Select all, delete. Select all, delete. Select all, delete. Select all, delete. Select all, delete. Lesson learned.

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