Blog Spammed

[SWCAdmin]

Late to this thread, and strictly amateur myself, but on the basis of advice from others smarter our system picks up a lot. FYI:

• We have a decent long list of denys in .htaccess
• Robots.txt is nice but only responsible robots read it
• God only knows how much those two deny
• 1,000+ crap comments a day leak through those two above on the Blog, etc.. Looking at the logs, rarely < 1/min. Most of those are throttled by basic measures before they even get to the junk-o-lator, which then picks up most of the rest. Some of which are ID'd by repeat offender IP. Still a handful of comments need manual intervention.
• Things are a lot tighter on SWC, but still some leakers. We are blessed with some very active moderators here in the forums.

Any more serious lock-down winds up locking out responsible users. Like our old foray with TypeKey. We still need to update a lot, but we plod along in a semi-functional way. C'est la e-vie.

[selil]

Any more serious lock-down winds up locking out responsible users. Like our old foray with TypeKey. We still need to update a lot, but we plod along in a semi-functional way. C'est la e-vie.

Once again you got it one. I'm putting you in for the vBulletin spam sniper award. Multiple levels of captcha's, IP deny tools (I've got one list with 100K spam bot IP's), and much more get pretty much all of it. You've likely hit the perfect balance between user lock out and spam lock out. The difference between usability and security being not such a nice and easy place to find you've all done pretty well. One of the forums I was helping was getting 30 to 40 porn spams a day. We implemented all of the protection measures and stopped it dead. Then the forum owner got sad because his unique user numbers plummeted. He removed all of the protections and the forum content can be found between pictures that suggest gymnastics only possible in science fiction and promotion opportunities that can't and shouldn't be believed.