Anti-Spam measures
Just installed Spam Karma 2 which makes a good impression when it comes to functionality.. on the other hand, usability is another topic (As I mentioned some days ago, I might be just stupid as well. A third possibility wold be that I wasn’t paying much attention for I played EQ2 on the other box.. but I guess that counts as being stupid, too). I just deleted all comments.. somehow I thought I’d have to re-aprove the already moderated comments by selecting them within the SK2-plugin and click ‘moderate’. Guess I thought wrong. A nice clean cut..
Lesson learned (jah, sure.): think before clicking, read before guessing, make a fscking backup of the fscking database before screwing around with your blogsoft. What’s ‘backup’ supposed to mean anyway?
September 24th, 2005 at 18:41
Hmmn… it’s perfectly possible to delete more or less all comments with SK2, but you would have to really try hard.
No matter how you go at it, you are looking at minimum 3 or 4 button clicks one checkbox ticking, one text field to fill (where you would have to specifically change the default purge value to “after 0 days”).
All in all, it sounds quite unlikely you would have deleted all comments (SK2 doesn’t delete comments, it merely mark them as spam and eventually purges them after a given number of days, provided you specifically ask it to).
I would give a look at the “Recent Spam Harvest” list, if I were you: changes your comments are there. And one click will restore them all at once.
Cheers.
September 24th, 2005 at 19:21
They’re back! Thanks Dr. Dave. That name is more fitting than I thought at first..
December 9th, 2006 at 3:07
WordPress Trackback Spam!!!
I have installed plugins that prevent comment spams, but this won't prevent trackback to be blocked. I've been spam by many
MFA websites that most probably is from the same network with trackback, but they are not linking me on their website. May I
know how do they do it and how do I stop it? Without disabling trackback?
Thanks, and I'm using WordPress.