Thu Tu’s Blog

I decided to join the Do Follow movement, which is… the opposite of the No Follow movement. The nofollow attribute was intended to discourage comment spammers by telling search engines not to trust links posted by visitors in blogs and forums. However, the spam problem has not gotten any better.
Despite the relentless efforts by spammers [...]

I’ve been using Akismet since I started using Wordpress in early 2006. It does a tremendous job of detecting spam. However, it’s not perfect and a few messages gets past its filter each week. Since I enforced moderation on new posters, this kept the spam from showing up on the blog. However, that measure prevented [...]

In addition to using Akismet to do the bulk of the filtering of comment spam, I moderate comments from new users. The past few days, several comments have made it through Akismet’s filters and I was notified to moderate them. Today, I saw one that seemed genuine:
I always have terrible trouble with comment-related plugins that [...]

It’s really disheartening the amount of work that we webmasters have to put in to protect our websites from comment spammers, and now hackers. Since I have a site with various ways for users to provide input, I have had to spend a lot of time and effort on protecting and modifying those scripts.
The easiest [...]

My reborn blog has been up for about a week and I already got comment spam. Word travels fast.
But I won’t get mad; I get glad… to report the sites of the spammers to Google’s spam report form.
Silly spammers: Your comments won’t see the light of day since I use comment [...]