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.