Kelly - email - url
GOD, I hate spam. I simply cannot tolerate its existence. *shudders*
27.11.03 @ 22:47:08 991
Jess - email - url
yeah KILL THE SPAMMERS 
I just got b2 to work recently...I'm very happy with it hehe. Wohoo!!! I'll submit that b2 update thingy later 
28.11.03 @ 11:42:59 529
crystal - email - url
i have a question.. how can i set up b2 on a different site from where i want the entries to show up? i know that in the config files it said it was made to be used on the same site, but is there a way around that?
29.11.03 @ 21:28:55 936
GaMerZ - email - url
I hate those spammers, once in a while have to check my comments just to delete away those spam comments.
30.11.03 @ 12:20:47 556
Lunar-GFX - email - url
Wow, I really like b2, and I have made a new layout for it, but I still have to fix it......http://fused-pixel.ionichost.com/b2/
30.11.03 @ 17:03:41 752
linda m jose - url
my bluelog sux
30.11.03 @ 18:35:44 816
Chipo - url
My friend has made a little tool in the comments that makes it necessary for the poster to manually check a box if s/he wants to leave a comment. So far that got me rid of all casino's etc! You can see it at work on my log (which is in dutch, I am sorry) if you click on "zeg het maar"
01.12.03 @ 21:37:24 942
aral - email - url
I've modified b2 so that users have to email and ask permission to be upped to Level 1 for commenting (Level 0 users cannot). I've had zero blog spam.
Let me know if you're interested and I'll release the code for it.
02.12.03 @ 08:52:12 411
Mel - email - url
yeah, spammers S-U-C-K. with a capital S. I know how it feels... *SIGH* well i hope to get b2 working soon on MY, ALL MINE, MY site! lol. *THIS* is a pathetic way to get attention around here. lol..
03.12.03 @ 04:43:18 238
hardy - email - url
is it pssible that you implement the code from "aral"?
03.12.03 @ 15:14:25 676
michel v - email - url
Aral, the idea is interesting, but to me it raises the barrier to commenting a little too high, so it's not something that I would implement here, and much less in the default b2 code.
However, I am sure many other b2 users would be interested in it, so it would be a good idea to submit the mod in the b2 hacks forum.
Chipo: that's an interesting approach. I shall think about it, in the future. Since most spam is automated, it would only be a matter of dynamically modify the comment form. Food for thought, heh...
crystal: at the moment, there is only one way. If the second server can access the first server's database, it could run. It could be slow though.
03.12.03 @ 15:47:32 699
Junkeater - email - url
www.junkeater.com has been offering a free spam protection service for a while and the feedback is encouraging. Certainly no rocket science solution, but enough to prevent most automatically submitted spam.
06.12.03 @ 14:14:02 634
HotShot
Wow, spamming on how to fight spam !
06.12.03 @ 15:56:57 706
Neil Groom - email - url
Thats true hotshot - how many of the above posts are real comments or spam. I believe you can never get rid of spam. email, blogs, forums whatever the technology. It will always be there. where there is a will, there is a way. Is this comment spam or not. You decide.. Is every comment with an URL spam or not. You decide.. Post your comments but no *spam*... I have put off releasing my b2 blog for a while just because of the spam issue!!
08.12.03 @ 23:37:32 026
Opalescent - email - url
Oh, but aren't most comments ultimately spam? Since my site is very new, I haven't had any spammers yet, but I've seen the problem in my favorite forums. Stopping automated spam is Very Good, but too bad it'd be rediculously hard if not impossible to make a program that would examine each comment, and if it looks like it might be spam (by keywords maybe), set it aside for approval by the blog owner before being allowed to be posted. (hint, hint.)
09.12.03 @ 00:10:39 049
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09.12.03 @ 01:02:23 084
michel v - email - url
Note to MrBlog in the TrackBacks: if you want to test your trackback class, do so elsewhere, thanks. No need to trackback this post 60 times.
If I get one more test trackback from your IP, I'm talking to your ISP about this abuse.
10.12.03 @ 17:24:29 767
Bernd - email
My god. These spam attacks on my website is really not normal. I hate them. Í worke half of the day only to remove those spammers
- edited by michel v:
This has got to be the funniest spam comment I ever got. A complaint about spam, that IS spam itself. Congrats, mister fucktard!
12.12.03 @ 16:23:58 724
april - email - url
i just started using b2 and OMG i love it! its so much better then greymatter!!!
17.12.03 @ 16:50:07 743
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25.12.03 @ 03:54:48 204
Dirk - email - url
How many spam posts do you get per day? I'm curious. I'm playing with enabling comments on my pages.
10.01.04 @ 19:10:15 840
Jobe - email
It seems everyone is assuming that it's automatically being dumped in by a machine.
The machine is probably just some guy paid to sit at a computer terminal and search out the web for dumping this spam crap on all of us. They're probably paid US prisoners! Well, just kidding with that bit, but you know, your interface problem consists of screening these guys out by asking them 4 questions about given blog before letting them in. You could rotate the questions even. It's that easy. There's no way they'd take the time to read and answer the questions. Well, just an idea.
15.01.04 @ 23:32:27 022
michel v - email - url
There's no way anyone would answer four questions to be able to comment. Legitimate commenters shouldn't see their experience crippled in the name of anti-spam measures, IMHO...
16.01.04 @ 00:05:48 045
Davezilla - url
I've been getting spam comments 3 or 4 times a day, usually on older posts. The problem is, the spammers are sending directly to the b2edit.php, bypassing the comments page completely. I know this because on one of my sites, comments were disabled and the spams kept coming in.
An option I have heard of, but haven't personally tried, is to rename the b2edit.php page and and change all links to it within the code (use a global find and replace). That allegedly stops the spammers from finding their way in. We'll see...
17.01.04 @ 16:23:24 724
Thomas - url
There are so many things you can do to avoid spamming. Just don't make it too easy to let them post their crap on your site. I'm getting tired of kicking their spam out of my own blog.
02.03.04 @ 22:53:38 995
Priya Shah
Newbie blogger. Just downoaded b2 and am getting my programmer to install it. But am completely clueless on preventing spam, using it etc. Do the forums have any information on this? Can someone direct me to some links, please?
Michel's note: first step is not to spam in here, smartass.
27.03.04 @ 18:27:48 810
Will Thompson - email - url
Actually, I'd say that this is censorship, but that censorship is not necessarily a bad thing. (In the same way, the word 'discrimination' does not necessarily describe _unfair_ discrimination...)
14.05.04 @ 16:44:34 739
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08.08.04 @ 03:46:22 198
name
I think you are confusing "spam" with "terrorism."
But I doubt any of you will get that.
Maybe you will figure out how to do email verification though.
19.08.04 @ 00:02:39 043
Dylan - email - url
Why not just see how long it takes to write a reply? Compare the time that the comment page is requested to the time that the comment is submitted. Since the spam is automated, the time between requesting the page and submitting the comment is very small (in fact, some of my webserver entries show zero time between the two). Surely persistant spammers will implement a wait() into their posts, but at least it can filter a few. Also, why not log the IPs of the dumbasses who try to spam c=1&p=1 and ban them from posts? Just a suggestion...
15.09.04 @ 16:12:43 717
SeSam - email - url
Spambots ruin my blog lately. Is there a way to switch commenting off in b2? I hate manually delete 30-40 comments daily from the SQL database...
24.09.04 @ 04:06:09 212