{"id":523,"date":"2006-04-17T21:17:51","date_gmt":"2006-04-17T19:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frenchfragfactory.net\/ozh\/archives\/2006\/04\/17\/state-of-the-spamosphere\/"},"modified":"2006-04-18T18:28:32","modified_gmt":"2006-04-18T16:28:32","slug":"state-of-the-spamosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/state-of-the-spamosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the Spamosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last 5 days or so, I&#39;ve been experiencing the biggest spam flood I&#39;ve ever had, going at the steady rate of about one spam comment every 15 seconds, which ends up making quite big numbers by the end of the day.<\/p>\n<p>I almost could not care, having here on this blog 3 lines of defense against the evil spammers :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a simple yet very efficient referrer spam check (yes, I know, I said I would release it months ago, it&#39;s still on my todo list, I swear :)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ioerror.us\/software\/bad-behavior\/\">Bad Behavior<\/a>, which is blocking known robots from even accessing the site<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/akismet.com\/\">Akismet<\/a>, a comment analysis whose job is to determine if a submitted comment is legit or crap<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I almost could not care, but the thing is, the moderation queue gets hammered with spam comments, and the spam queue gets filled quicker than I can clean it. By the time I wrote these few lines, 30 new spams got caught by Akismet. And if Akismet ever goes down for a second, 10 comments make it through.<\/p>\n<p>So, here enters a fourth line of defense against spam : <del datetime=\"2006-04-18T16:43:39+00:00\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-marco.nl\/wp\/wordpress\/2005\/09\/21\/welcome\/\">Spamquiz<\/a>, a simple plugin Marco made a few months ago and that I preciously kept here till the day I would feel I need it<\/del>. Didn&#39;t work with WP 2.x it seems. However, I found a little plugin which looks really really neat : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.herod.net\/dypm\/\">Did you pass maths ?<\/a>. Hope it has some benefits. At least it&#39;ll make real commenters use their brain a bit before they can post :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too much spam getting caught here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1,12,85,27,245],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-my-life","tag-planetozh","tag-plugins","tag-spam","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}