Jo’s Cafe

Trackback Spam

Jo’s Cafe is experiencing a lot of trackback spam at the present time. As I get them, I am deleting them and closing the comments on those posts.

I do hope not to accidently delete anyone’s trackback or comment - but if I do, please email me and I’ll fix it.

Thanks

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Amy Proctor Says:
November 30th, 2005 at 10:36 am

I hate spam. And pop-ups. Hopefully it’ll be rectified. I think HaloScan has a ban on particular IPs of trackbacks, but it’s probably impossible to get them all and they probably change IPs frequently.

Carry on!
David Edelman Says:
November 30th, 2005 at 5:51 pm

Jo, I used to have a ton of trackback spam until I got a plugin that automatically turns off comments and trackbacks in posts that have been inactive for 31 days. I use Movable Type, but I bet WordPress has a similar plugin.

Also, are you querying a blacklist server like bsb.spamlookup.net or opm.blitzed.org. There are plugins that will check trackback IPs against those.

Between those two methods, I went from a few trackback spam a day to exactly zero in the past two months. My “junk trackback” folder gets about 20 a day. It’s annoying to delete them but at least they’re never published.

David
basil Says:
December 1st, 2005 at 6:49 am

Have you considered Spam Karma 2? It catches many, many spams (TrackBack and Comments). It does require monitoring, because it catches some legit ones, too. But it does email you at regular intervals with a report.

Just a thought.
Jo Says:
December 1st, 2005 at 7:07 am

No I haven’t thought about that, but then I haven’t had a chance to research the plugins out there yet that would help. I will do just that.