Well, I co admin a couple of blogs on a site on the net.
We use impostaside as an automatic spam plugin, we also have sociable
which handles twitter, facebook, etc.
Bar that we also use the capcha tool on google I think its free
capcha, or something, its got good audio varification, easy to
understand, words, etc and only registered users can comment.
Ofcause all anonomous posting needs to die ofcause but there are ways.
If you need help, email me off list and I can probably dump the info
from the server for you if you need it.
At 04:29 p.m. 20/03/2012 +0000, you wrote:
Hi tom.
I'm not sure if the blog over at www.arborell.com uses a system like
wordpress, but instead of comments there's just a link to mail the
author directly. sinse your mail is already on the usa games site
this might be a reasonable compromise, as it's not the blog that's
the problem it seems, it's the comments.
of course, I'm not absolutely sure whether the arborell blog is! a
blog system as such, or whether the author just writes up a blog in
html and bangs a mail link at the bottom of each new entry, but that
I'd suggest is a way to go, especially sinse I'd be willing to bet
that %90 of the people reading the blog and wishing to comment will
be either from here or the audiogames.net forum anyway.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Audyssey Mailing List" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 3:55 PM
Subject: [Audyssey] The Future of the USA Games Blog
Hi all,
Recently the USA Games blog has been getting hammered by spam and
this morning the spam attacks have been larger than they've ever
been. I logged into the USA Games dashboard only to find a total of
387 messages waiting for moderation and 366 of them were definitely
spam and the other 21 were questionable. None of the comments were
from people from the Audio Games forum, Audyssey, or USA Games
list. That, of course, makes me wonder if anyone here actually uses
the blog or not.
Basically, what I want to know is how many people here actually use
the USA Games blog, and if you want us to keep it. If not we are in
favor of removing Wordpress from the USA Games site and go back to
writing up news related items in html as needed. That will prevent
people from commenting on articles, making suggestions, etc but
will also get rid of the constant spam to the website.
Of course, there are ways we can control the spam by black listing
IP Addresses where the spam originates from, black list domains and
e-mail addresses, etc but such methods tend to restrict access from
perfectly legit users as well. We hate to begin black listing
blocks of IP Addresses from say Hotmail knowing that a certain
amount of VI gamers might actually be on Hotmail and be black
listed simply because the server happens to be hammering our site with spam.
So please let us know if you want the blog to remain, in which case
we'll be taking more drastic steps to filter spam, or if you'd
rather us just ditch the blog and go back to writing up news in straight html.
Sincerely,
Thomas Ward
USA Games Interactive
http://www.usagamesinteractive.com
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