[Gluster-infra] Wordpress spam comments increasing... :(

[Justin Clift]

Just enabled this, with 14 days as the allowed comment period.

For reference, the option is in Settings -> Discussion
-> Other Comment Settings -> "Automatically close comments on
articles older than x days".

If the comment spam keeps being too high, we can reduce the
time period and see how it goes.

+ Justin
  

On 23/09/2014, at 1:43 PM, John Mark Walker wrote:
> I think shutting down comments on posts older than a week or two is a good idea.
> 
> And if needed, brute force IPTables for the worst offenders.
> 
> -JM
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>>> A lot more comment spam has started hitting our Wordpress
>>> installation over the last few days.  Instead of the general
>>> 5-10 per day, it's been ramping up to 20-30 a day.  Yesterday
>>> we had 100+.  (hoping that will drop off, but doubting it)
>>> 
>>> We already have the "Akismet" spam prevention plugin installed
>>> and activated.  It just seems like it's not doing a great
>>> job any more.
>>> 
>>> Anyone have practical ideas on how to combat this problem?
>> 
>> Auto-closing posts older than a certain age can help bring those numbers
>> back down, without affecting useful discussion.  IIRC this functionality
>> now exists in WordPress itself, but if not there are also plugins to do
>> it.  Unfortunately, my experience has been that CAPTCHAs don't work very
>> well.  It blocks the true bots, but there seem to be a surprising number
>> of humans (hired through Amazon Mechanical Turk or similar) who can get
>> past any reasonable CAPTCHA.  I ended up using an external comment
>> system on an otherwise static site, in part because of the spam.
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