Scott Hanselman

I have the same problem - I'm also wondering what the solution is..

I usually treat it as a nature's force (a hurricane or a snow storm) and just wait it out, diligently pruning the spam comments out -- it's not that difficult. IMHO, the only easy way to get rid of them is to start posting really boring and uninteresting entries to lower the overall popularity of your blog :)

Ask users to register and log on first before commenting. Its pretty easy to implement if you want to go quick & dirty. Just change web.config in dasBlog to include form authentication for CommentView.aspx and write plain vanila login.aspx and register.aspx for user accounts. Problem is that than your comments won't be indexed by search engine and thats bad because lot many times comments have much more useful info than actual blog. So if you want to do nice way, you will need a further little tweak in dasBlog source to seperate comment view and comment entry.

I've thought of a even better solution. Hopefully I'll have some time on my hand to implement it soon.

If anyone comes up with a dasBlog solution, let me know and I'll put it up on www.CommentSpam.org. In the meantime, you're welcome to consume my BlackList of people who have comment-spammed LonghornBlogs.com.

No option in dasBlog for CAPCHA to try to force human-only entry? Jeff Atwood has a nice self-contained ASP.NET CAPCHA control, but I don't know if you can integrate that your own self with dasBlog.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000126.html

Great stuff folks...I just had an epiphany, and I'll prototype it tonight! (may not even require any dasBlog changes!)

Use:

Authentication

then use SUBRLs (Spam URI Realtime Blacklists). If a comment contains a blacklisted uri, automatically reject the comment.


After the above two which should reject bad comments before you see them, you manually reject the ones that got through.

--Abdu

This is a test

This is a test 2

Looking quite promising!

I'm surprised you haven't seen referral spam yet, especially as dasBlog appears to just display every referral.

I've ended up listing them now, see http://idunno.org/misc/referralSpammers.aspx

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