How Do You Fight Spam On Your Site?

[T100 0]

I am currently using wordpress for blogging. There are always some annoying spammers who would use some anonymous proxies for spamming. They must have been bots for even at one time I mistakenly hid the commenting box due to some errors with the php script, they still manage to spam on my site. Of course, I can turn off commenting or specify that all comments be moderated, but I would also like my blog to be as ?free? as possible. I have been using blacklist, but it seems to be quite reactive instead of proactive. Do you have any other means to fight blog spammers?

[john_meikle 0]

What about Googling it, or try to ban their IP's or something because I don't really use blogs I use phpBB Forums because whats the difference So thats my answer, im not really into Blogs so I don't know how to stop Spam in the blogs, might be impossible

[Carsten 0]

You should try to change your post variables. If you have <input type="text" name="comment" /> by default in your blog script, try to change comment to something else. A spam bot knows these posts variables, and can submit a form with values from this variables after it found your site. If you change the post variable, a bot wouldn't be able to post on your blog! I am sure that you can find some info about this on the Wordpress website or support forums.

[round 0]

i had that problem too, which was dumb cause no one every posted on my blog. I think it's an auto thing to increase link popularity on google. It's an script which searches and posts on everything. At least that's what i've been told.
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[err 0]

i never use blog in my site. i surprised if span can attack a content of blog site.i thing before it just attack such email cause the know our email address on site using their crawler system. thats why i.e. google groups have a partial hidden mail on their system to avoid spam.talking aboud email, sometime my friend send email but go to bulk mail together with spam mail. a system categorize it as a spam. its very terrible. thats why i prefer and never use anti spam in my email system, then i delete it by myself mannually.