Blog Spam...
 

I get like 200 automated blogspam comments on my blog every day all for cialis and viagra and shit. I've heard SEGuru is spamming blogs to get listings.

If I every met the person behind this I would personally strangle them.

I like having interactivity on my blog but sorting through 200 fake comments a day gets annoying.

What do you do to cut down on this shit?

Me too - although way more damn mobile phone "deals" :(

Past month or so has been really bad although it has lulled slightly in the past few days for some reason.

some goold filters out there but i doubt it will work most of the time and youw ould end up baby sitting it alot

i guess hire out the grunt work in exchange for a listing or something :)

i was given some great advice on this

if you're using wordpress - add a few words to the ban list for comments ie cialis in your case.

Great idea.
The spam is out of control.

Consider putting an OCR on the blog and it should eliminate a big chunk of them.
WG

Wow, these stats are nuts:

69,445,674 spams caught so far
4,495 so far today
93% of all comments are spam

WG

Good idea.

Jay - there are plenty of automated programs out there to spam blogs - and I doubt SEGuru (if hes doing it at all) is the only one LOL - if you require a signin - and like was mentioned an ocr it should cut down on it alot - and add to your mailing list for a newsletter - see everything has a silver lining :)

Does anyone know how to do this in wordpress?

Try the plugin I posted. It's free, you just need a free API key from WP.com. Real users hate OCRs and there is no blacklist of words or urls to update. Plus it learns from the whole WP community virally real fast. The only way it won't work is if you are the only blog the person is spamming, which isn't very likely. :)

Don't know about the recent versions of WP, but the earlier versions this did not help at all

Should be Options --> Discussions and there is a blacklist at the bottom of the page . . . at least on the versions I use

in your admin

Options -> Discussion -> Enter your text in the comments black list text field.

:thumbsup

http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/
Spam Karma 2 (SK2) is an anti-spam plugin for the WordPress blogging platform. It is meant to stop all forms of automated Blog spam effortlessly, while remaining as unobtrusive as possible to regular commenters. Spam Karma 2 is the proud successor to Spam Karma, with whom it shares most of the development ideas, but absolutely none of the code.

Also see:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Spam_Tools

And last but not least:
http://www.homelandstupidity.us/software/bad-behavior/

i never have comments on

Which program are you using? There should always be comment moderation options in these things...

I have these words in my blacklist.

4u
adipex
advicer
baccarrat
blackjack
bllogspot
booker
byob
car-rental-e-site
car-rentals-e-site
carisoprodol
casino
casinos
chatroom
cialis
coolcoolhu
coolhu
credit-report-4u
cwas
cyclen
cyclobenzaprine
dating-e-site
day-trading
debt-consolidation-consultant
discreetordering
duty-free
dutyfree
equityloans
fioricet
flowers-leading-site
freenet-shopping
freenet
gambling-
health
health-insurancedeals-4u
homeequityloans
homefinance
holdem
holdempoker
holdemsoftware
holdemtexasturbowilson
hotel-dealse-site
hotele-site
hotelse-site
incest
insurance-quotesdeals-4u
insurancedeals-4u
jrcreations
levitra
lolita
macinstruct
mortgage
mortgage-4-u
mortgagequotes
online-gambling
onlinegambling-4u
ottawavalleyag
ownsthis
palm-texas-holdem-game
paxil
penis
pharmacy
phentermine
poker-chip
poze
rental-car-e-site
roulette
shemale
shoes
slot-machine
texas-holdem
thorcarlson
top-site
top-e-site
tramadol
trim-spa
ultram
valeofglamorganconservatives
viagra
vioxx
xanax
zolus

great list - adding that to all my sites now - thanks :thumbsup

Yeah, but it is a PITA going thru all that crap approving and denying

That's pretty sweet. Thanks. :)