Trackback spam
April 18th, 2008
I’ve had a recent rash of trackback spam, so I am considering turning the trackback feature off. In the last seven months, only spammers have used it anyway. However, I have installed a spam baysian filter that I want to play with and test before I just give up. So, if you see spam links, please know that I am watching, training my filter, and actively fighting them. Hopefully the new toy will work and I won’t have to remove the trackback feature…although I notice the plugin author has done so.
On the positive side, if this works well, I will remove the captcha requirement from posting, even though I wrote all the questions myself and think they are rather amusing.
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3 Comments Add your own
1. Miles | April 18th, 2008 at 5:53 am
Testing the Human Test
2. matthew | April 18th, 2008 at 6:01 am
Hi Miles. You passed.
3. matthew | April 18th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Wow. In the last 12 hours I have had 25 trackbacks, all spam. The filter caught all but 5 of them. That’s pretty good for no training. Hopefully the filter will get better and better and we won’t get anymore spam soon.
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