[wp-hackers] Spam comments on the old posts

[Michael Heilemann]

About having a preview page, thus forcing people to hit submit twice:

It may deter spambots, but it IMO also deters people from posting. I 
don't know how other people feel about this particular micro-trend, but 
I personally think it's a major annoyance when commenting.

Aloha, Mike
http://binarybonsai.com


On 24/9-2004, at 21.28, David House wrote:

> Quoting Peio Popov <peio at peio.org>:
>
>> 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.
>
> I have two very effective ways of combatting spam implemented:
>
> * my super-easy comments-shutoff (http://wordpress.org/support/10/4268)
> * a wp-comments-preview.php page, which simply repeats the form from
> wp-comments.php and shows the comment as it would be. This means that 
> two
> submit buttons are going to have to be hit by spambots, which doubles 
> the
> difficulty of spamming the site (and most bots aren't sophisticated 
> enough to
> realise this)
>
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