People named after drugs
Nov 13, 2009
Does any reader have suggestions for getting rid of the spam comments? The Typepad spam filter has been defeated by an avalanche of spam -- if not, the world has recently fallen in love with names of pharma drugs.
Mollom is fantastic, I haven't seen a spam comment in months and was able to turn off CAPTCHAs completely. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a typepad plugin. Perhaps there's a plugin for Akismet? That's another service that's pretty good.
Another simple thing to do that I have found to reduce spam a lot was to turn off comments on older posts. That gives the spam scripts fewer points to attack.
Posted by: Robert Kosara | Nov 13, 2009 at 08:06 AM
I hate it when bloggers turn off comments on older posts.
Posted by: Omegatron | Nov 13, 2009 at 01:42 PM
Akismet for WordPress is awesome. I don't need any captchas or anything to screen out machines.
You ought to see whether Akismet has a plugin for TypePad.
Posted by: Jon Peltier | Nov 16, 2009 at 03:46 PM
Agree with Jon Peltier 100%. Akismet catches all spam, which opens up your blog posts to one and all w/o signons of captchas. Alas, there doesn't seem to be an Akismet for Typepad. But there is Typepad antispam. Seems to have received favorable reviews at, http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/29/typepad-antispam-a-new-open-source-comment-spam-fighter/
Good Luck,
John C. Munoz
http://www.bzintelguru.com
Posted by: John Munoz | Nov 18, 2009 at 10:33 AM
I had the same problem as you, and unfortunately the only solution I found was to migrate to WordPress. Which didn't hurt nearly as much as I expected...
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