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A quickie here on how to handle comment and trackback spam in WordPress 1.5 here on [rmfo-blogs.com]:

1. Go through Spam Karma [Options --> Spam Karma] every time you go to post and run through the spam it’s caught.
2. Go to your Blacklist Peers [Manage --> Blacklist Peers] and synchronize with this Weblog.
3. For comments that leak through: Edit the comment [Manage --> Comments], and change it from “Approved” to “Spam” and hit [Edit]. Rather than delete comments, WordPress 1.5 sets them as spam and keeps them in the database. You’re building your own knowledgebase of what spam is, and that will, in the long run, help you buttress the defenses with things like Bayesian filtering.

If you have specific questions, post them in the comments.

As you know, I was testing Spam Karma on RMFO-Blogs a while back. Now, I’ve rolled it out for everyone, and have had that done for a while.

But since the TrackBack spammers are back, well, there’s still some manual work to be done.

You should refer back to my previous article on how to rid yourself of comment spam with Spam Words; this just adds a couple of steps.

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As announced, The About Log is testing the Spam Karma plugin as its sole spam-stopping solution.

I’m serious about comment spam; it’s a burden to have 50+ users, many of whom don’t have or can’t make the time to delete their spam, and a solution that prevents spam from being committed to the database in the first place is worth my while.

I’m also seeking a few volunteers to be guinea pigs. Hannah and Steve have already volunteered; I’d take three more.

Many [rmfo-blogs] users have had their Weblogs indexed enough by Google to now be suffering from comment spam. What follows is an tutorial for an advanced technique for stemming the flow of comment spam; this involves installing a WordPress plugin and going above and beyond the basic WordPress functionality for fighting comment spam.

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At present, [rmfo-blogs.com] Weblogs are powered by WordPress v1.2. At the release of 1.2, comment spam was on the rise in the Weblog community as a whole, and WordPress, with its rising popularity, was quickly becoming a target of comment spammers.

The following is a tutorial of how to rid yourself of comment spam in WordPress v1.2. There are screen caps that have unimportant or distracting information blurred out; the focus of each step will be highlighted clearly in yellow. I don’t have 1337 PhotoShop skills, but hey … you’re not paying me to write this, are you?

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