Re: [nyphp-talk] stopping comment spam with PHP

2009-06-03 Thread Konstantin Rozinov
mollom.com looks interesting because they also offer a dedicated high-availability solution whereby you can host their service on your own servers, especially if you've got the traffic. Thanks for that link! Basically, I'm looking into Akismet and Mollom at this point. Very interested in the ded

Re: [nyphp-talk] stopping comment spam with PHP

2009-06-03 Thread Mitch Pirtle
You should also check out Mollom, integrates with a great many platforms and is having rapid growth/success: http://mollom.com/ -- Mitch On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Konstantin Rozinov wrote: > Thanks guys for the info and links.  I will check out akismet and Disqus. > > I also found this ar

Re: [nyphp-talk] stopping comment spam with PHP

2009-06-02 Thread Konstantin Rozinov
Thanks guys for the info and links. I will check out akismet and Disqus. I also found this article, which was a simple explanation of some techniques using hidden fields: http://www.rustylime.com/show_article.php?id=676 I'll let you all know if I find anything interesting regarding this topic.

Re: [nyphp-talk] stopping comment spam with PHP

2009-06-02 Thread Daniel Horning
On Behalf Of Chris Snyder > Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 5:38 PM > To: NYPHP Talk > Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] stopping comment spam with PHP > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 5:36 PM, John Campbell > wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Chris Snyder > wrote: > >>

Re: [nyphp-talk] stopping comment spam with PHP

2009-06-02 Thread Chris Snyder
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 5:36 PM, John Campbell wrote: > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Chris Snyder wrote: >> I've had rel="nofollow" in my comments froms since 2003 and I still >> get dumb spammers who either don't know or don't care. > > Wow, I am impressed.  Google announced nofollow in 2005,

Re: [nyphp-talk] stopping comment spam with PHP

2009-06-02 Thread John Campbell
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Chris Snyder wrote: > I've had rel="nofollow" in my comments froms since 2003 and I still > get dumb spammers who either don't know or don't care. Wow, I am impressed. Google announced nofollow in 2005, and you already had it implemented for two years. :) -jc ___

Re: [nyphp-talk] stopping comment spam with PHP

2009-06-02 Thread Chris Snyder
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:47 PM, John Campbell wrote: > You should also make sure your comment system is using rel="nofollow", > and doesn't have any XSS issues. > > If you aren't using rel="nofollow", and the site has page rank, then > it will be worth the spammer's time to manually defeat your fo

Re: [nyphp-talk] stopping comment spam with PHP

2009-06-02 Thread Chris Snyder
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Paul A Houle wrote: >   No matter what technological measures you use,  you'll need a user > interface to make hand edits.  For instance,  my site at > > http://spoonriveranthology.net/ > >   uses Disqus for comments because I didn't have time to develop a good > c

Re: [nyphp-talk] stopping comment spam with PHP

2009-06-02 Thread John Campbell
You should also make sure your comment system is using rel="nofollow", and doesn't have any XSS issues. If you aren't using rel="nofollow", and the site has page rank, then it will be worth the spammer's time to manually defeat your form. ___ New York PH

Re: [nyphp-talk] stopping comment spam with PHP

2009-06-02 Thread Paul A Houle
Konstantin Rozinov wrote: Hi guys, I'm interested in hearing what kind of classes, packages, solutions the professionals on this list use to protect their sites against spam in relation to comments. For example, users commenting on other user's pages like Facebook or any social networking site.

Re: [nyphp-talk] stopping comment spam with PHP

2009-06-02 Thread Donald J. Organ IV
" Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2009 4:31:50 PM Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] stopping comment spam with PHP I think we have a consensus when three people give the same answer in 12 minutes. Great minds do really think alike. Hans K ___ New York PHP Use

Re: [nyphp-talk] stopping comment spam with PHP

2009-06-02 Thread Hans C. Kaspersetz
I think we have a consensus when three people give the same answer in 12 minutes. Great minds do really think alike. Hans K ___ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show_

Re: [nyphp-talk] stopping comment spam with PHP

2009-06-02 Thread Hans C. Kaspersetz
I am not using WordPress, Drupal, or other CMS, blog software, frameworks, so plugins for those won't work, but maybe I can learn something from them. Konstantin, You might consider looking at http://akismet.com/. This is the data/API provider that the WordPress plugin uses. You can get a key

Re: [nyphp-talk] stopping comment spam with PHP

2009-06-02 Thread Chris Snyder
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Konstantin Rozinov wrote: > Basically, I'm interested in hearing opinions on different options to > block comment spam. Comment spam is pretty similar to email spam -- there are a bunch of tricks you can use to slow down dumb scripts, but then the scripts get smar

Re: [nyphp-talk] stopping comment spam with PHP

2009-06-02 Thread Michael Hernandez
On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 16:11 -0400, Konstantin Rozinov wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm interested in hearing what kind of classes, packages, solutions > the professionals on this list use to protect their sites against spam > in relation to comments. > For example, users commenting on other user's pages

[nyphp-talk] stopping comment spam with PHP

2009-06-02 Thread Konstantin Rozinov
Hi guys, I'm interested in hearing what kind of classes, packages, solutions the professionals on this list use to protect their sites against spam in relation to comments. For example, users commenting on other user's pages like Facebook or any social networking site. I am not using WordPress, D