[wp-hackers] Spam comments on the old posts

[Michael Heilemann]

I use a plugin that does this. After X days, all comments to a post are 
moderated.

Works like a charm, catches 95% of all my comment spam.

Aloha, Mike
http://binarybonsai.com

On 23/9-2004, at 22.05, Ashwin Bihari wrote:

> I think spamming of posts has started to become a hassle for a lot of
> people. In a pervious thread about this, in either the forums or the
> hackers mailing list, the auto-close plugin was mentioned and that
> might be a better alternative than one that requires for moderation of
> comments to old posts.
>
> This plugin basically took the number of days as an argument and
> closed any posts that were older than the specified day. So you could
> be as stringent as 1 week or as lax as 1 month.
>
> Regards
>
>
> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:21:46 -0400, Peio Popov <peio at peio.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Guys,
>>   from what I've seen the comment spammers usually spam on old posts 
>> and
>> the legitimate comments are mostly on the recent posts.
>>
>>   So I've written a small hack to flag for approval comments that are
>> older than certain period of time (default: 2 weeks).
>>
>> Here is the idea and please excuse the text formatting:
>> function my_comment_on_old_post($comments_period = 1209600) {
>> global $comment_post_ID, $time_newcomment, $tableposts, $wpdb;
>>
>> $postdate = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT post_date FROM $tableposts  WHERE 
>> ID
>> = $comment_post_ID ");
>> if (!empty($postdate)) {
>>         $time_post = mysql2date('U', $postdate);
>>
>>         if (( $time_newcomment  - $time_post  ) > $comments_period) {
>>                 return false;
>>         }
>> }
>>
>>         return true;
>> }
>>
>> The function is defined in my-hacks.php and is called in
>> wp-comments-post.php around line 63 where:
>>
>> if(check_comment($author, $email, $url, $comment, $user_ip) ) {
>>
>> is replaced with
>>
>> if(check_comment($author, $email, $url, $comment, $user_ip) &&
>> my_comment_on_old_post() ) {
>>
>> It can be easily adapted to work with the posts wich are on the front
>> page and I might add that code later.
>>
>> Tested on WP 1.2
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Peio Popov
>>
>> My blog entry: http://blog.peio.org/index.php?p=154
>>
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