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This is an old revision of AlexBernstein made by AlexBernstein on 2007-11-20 23:25:21.

 

My RebelWiki has been getting a lot of comment spam. I've installed BadBehavior about a year ago and that helped for a while. When that started failing, I've installed SpamBlacklist, and that again helped for a some time, but it was struggle to keep the list updated especially as I travel. In October, even bigger wave of spam came and some pages gotten so big and take so much time to output, that my site started hitting CPU quotas. Also, in addition to comment spam, the pages themselves were now getting spam. So I had to come up with the new solution. I've installed FreeCap, and added an IP filter.

Here's a summary of what I did:
  1. Added action MarkSpam that shows admin the number of comments made from each IP and allows blacklisting of IPs
  1. Modified SpamBlacklist to log spam to DB instead of a file
  1. Modified SpamBlacklist to block IPs that have been blacklisted or that previously hit blacklisted word before

A few days now with no spam. I received a single comment that said something like: "I've accessed your site 730 times" and promptly blacklisted it.
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