Are you fond of Bad Behaviour?
Not so long ago I started to find my post comments were getting targeted by spammers. This was nothing too disastrous at the time as I have the excellent Akismet plugin installed on all my blogs. So far Akismet has yet to let anything through, well at least not that I’ve noticed yet anyway.
However I was reading a tech blog recently (sorry blogger, I’ve lost your link) where the post described how blocking spam comments is not enough as spammers are not only filling your comments up with rubbish, but they also use up your bandwidth each month. This isn’t much of a problem for me at the minute as my hosting package covers my bandwidth with ample spare. However, I’ve recently started to see my traffic increasing substantially and with that so has the number of spam attempts. This still isn’t a major problem, but rather more of an annoyance.
The blog post mentioned another spam plugin, designed to work alongside Akismet (and others) that is supposed to stop the spammers from even accessing your site in the first place. The plugin is called Bad Behaviour and I pretty much installed it straight away. The only problem is, it doesn’t seem to have done anything for me. If anything the volume of spam comments has only increased. I’m interested to hear of anyone else who has used Bad Behaviour and found it worked, maybe I’ve got a few settings wrong..?
It’s not all doom and gloom though, I do take some solace in the names the spammers use in their comments. Some of the classics are:
Hermes, Grigoris, Draffiela, Prokopios, Theodosios, Arsenios, Agapios and my own personal favourite….. which came in yesterday…
Adolfo Crump.
Now who comes up with a name like that..? (apologies if you are an Adolfo Crump)
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I haven’t tried bad behavior but I really like Raven’s Anti-Spam. It requires users to have their javascript enabled or it makes them enter a captcha.
It reduced spam considerably.
I haven’t tried Bad Behavior because it seems like overkill, but if they are pulling too much bandwidth or likely to in the future, better take precautions now.
Hi again Lucio. I’ll check out Raven’s Anti-Spam, although I have a deep felt hatred for captcha. That said, if it reduces spam then it’s worth considering.
I also installed Bad Behaviour on another blog I run and since writing this post I noticed that spam has fallen incredibly. In fact I’ve received nothing for almost three weeks. Nice.