Huddled Masses
November 1st, 2004 | 
Author: This is a public service announcement.
If you own the spam bot that is slowing down my site, or the domain where this spam bot wants people to play texas hold-em or some other video poker game website … Please go somewhere else. I just deleted 200+ “comments” from my moderation cue because you spammers are too stupid to give up when the first 50 spammed comments don’t show up on the site. Update: I just deleted another 105 that never made it onto the pages. Don’t you feel stupid yet? Update: After a week’s vacation: 6 comments posted, 1 comment saved from moderation (thank you Thunderbird search-filters) ... 342 comments deleted. Ha ha ha!
I mean, for goodness sakes, surely by now you’ve figured out that just mentioning poker, or any other form of gambling, cigarretes, or any other form of drug, or any kind of link whatesoever is enough to send your comment to the queue for moderation. And furthermore, even a 4 year old child could handle the task of deciding whether these particular comments are legitimate comments or just junk spam.[diespam]
If you can’t figure this out, I may have to take more obvious measures to make you stop wasting my time (yes, it’s annoying to have to click a button to delete comments, and besides, I have to click twice, because I have to click the link to go to my comment moderation page). [LOL]
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This same evil person is also driving me insane. Thank goodness I got the wpblacklist plugin working, and the bulk of them are deleted automatically….bliss
I too have been getting the same junk. When I start getting hit I activate MooKitty’s Comment Killer Plugin, which spares me having to manually delete them, it just deletes everything flagged for moderation. I turn it off when the tide goes down just to be on the safe side. I kinda wonder what would happen if anybody ever wanted to talk about poker now.
/me adds “debt” to filtered words, and mutters threats
Honestly, it’s not that bad, the version of WordPress I have has a check box to simply delete everything in the moderation queue, and they even make it easy to spot ones that are NOT spam, because all the spam ones look exactly the same so you can scroll down the list a mile-a-minute and still see the odd actual comment. Not to mention that if there’s more than a couple of comments in one day I get really suspicious. I am however, thinking about finding or creating a plugin that would disable comments completely on older posts, just to lower the number of comments they can post, because they are clearly posting on pretty much every post on my site.
Have you seen podz’s writeup on tackling comment spam? He’s gathered the best info he could come across, give it a read. I hate seeing people have to worry about so much comment spam.
When these bots first started hitting I couldn’t figure out what in the world was going on. I’d never had comment spam before and then bam! Besides my blog, I host my Pastor’s blog and do all of the backend stuff on it for him, so between the two of us, I guess I’ve had to delete well over 1500 comments. At least they were in moderation.
I also learned what happens when you have a blank line at the end of your filtered words – that won’t happen again!
You know, on a wordpress site I administer, there are 16947 messages “awaiting moderation”.
I can’t even get to the page to delete them – it just doens’t load. meh.