Shoutbox Spam
After getting inundated with spam in the Shures Network shoutbox, I was considering removing it. But Pierre from France was kind enough to leave me a shout about his improved version with spam filtering. It interfaces with WordPress’s comment moderation and blacklists to ban or block undesirable shouts.
So far, after implementing the new code, 97.4% of my shoutbox spam is now being blocked. For some reason, a few are still being able to slip by with words that are on the blacklist. I’m sure this number will improve once my list of moderated IPs grows to encompass the shoutbox spammers.
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November 5th, 2006 at 5:25 am
Hi Aden,
Be carefull. I do not use the WP blacklist but only the comments moderation list. Have a look on the last release of the box on my blog, it can correct the missing 2,6%