Comments on: Blog Comments Bot Spamming Protection – Easy Solution

By: Hiroshi

Hiroshi — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 19:55:17 +0000

@rommel browne: Try these:
Flood control – Control posting flood from admin control. Implement posting limits.
Use CAPTCHA or Textual Confirmation and e-mail confirmation during registration process
Use Akismet – http://akismet.com
Change technical details of the forum software to confuse bots, for example, changing “agreed=true” to “mode=agreed” in the registration page of phpBB.
Block posts or registrations that contain certain blacklisted words.
Disable signature in forums.
Moderate new users. Approve them for unmoderated posting only after they’ve posted a number of posts.

By: Hiroshi

Hiroshi — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 19:44:46 +0000

@rommel browne: You have a forum. If you had a blog then its easy. Blog has got plugins e.g. Akismet and hacks e.g. comments template modification to check and distinguish in between the genuine referrer and automatic bot. Blog also lets you block IP and certain keywords. For Forum its different. Forum has got different hacks. You can search mods and hacks for your forum to block spam. You can also block posting from bots and automatic spamming software by using above code in the file which posts the thread. By using this php code in top of the php file, it will check the correct referrer. It will check that the page has been loaded from your domain or not.

By: rommel browne

rommel browne — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:19:58 +0000

there is a bot spamming in my website forums everyday. i track his ip and he is from Korea republic. i ban his ip everyday but he have a lot of ips so don’t make much sense. its getting frustrating and i want it to stop. i email him for and kindly ask him to stop but he continue. can you help me?