Back in business
I re-enabled comments this afternoon. Sorry for all the vulgar language in my post last nite, but I was really ticked off. Hopefully the spammers got sick of the errors they were getting because the files they were looking for were removed, and hopefully they moved on. I still need to look into the latest spam prevention methods. I’m just glad that all of that crap didn’t go into the moderation queue. All I had to do was delete the email that were sent notifying me that the f’kers were trying to leave comments. I am glad about that.
Mood: 
lazy
lazyPosted under announcements
Just checking to make sure that comments are working after the changes I made.
Spambots are so annoying. I am using Tarpit and Kitten’s Spam Words, which I found through you. I am also using SpamWord Block by Josh Burley. It all seems to be working. What are you using now?
Right now, I’m just using the TarPit and Spaminator plugins. They are doing their jobs … none of the nearly 1000 or more spam attempts got through to moderation or actually being shown on my site. It was just annoying. All of the attempts had blank referrers. I’d like to somehow stop them from even submitting or trying to submit comment spam if the referrer is blank. I’m not sure if there’s something for that or not. For now, I’ve renamed the wp-comments*.php files. Hopefully that’ll help. I’ll have to check into that SpamWord Block plugin you mentioned.