Any ideas on what to do about comment spammers (blogs)

[fs5]

It seems to be a growing problem on my site.

So far I've:
1. disabled HTML in comments
2. put rel="nofollow" tags on any links.
3. banned any ips that comment spam.

Still it doesn't deter the spammers. One guy has been spamming my site 10 times a day with varies ips so I can't ban him. It's most likely automated software. He links his site www. tigerspice. com in conjunction w/ poker. I'm not going to link it, only gives him what he wants.

I doubt the whois info is correct but I signed him up for as much spam email as possible. Also wrote him an email saying stop as$hole.

home
Andy Hoffman andyhoffman2005@yahoo.com
+2.6524513646
Fax: +2.6524513646
Malibu dr. 19
Panama, UR 98532
US

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Stop using a public blog? Disallow comments? Disable registration?

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

I doubt the whois info is correct but I signed him up for as much spam email as possible.

Congrats, you've just lowered yourself to his level. :thumbsdown:

 

[meltdown75]

punch him in the face, stat

 

[Mr N8]

Can you set it approve registration?

 

[spartan]

Why not just parse every new comment submitted and drop any that has his site name in it?

 

[RaDragon]

Originally posted by: spartan
Why not just parse every new comment submitted and drop any that has his site name in it?

Ding. Winnar!

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: MogulMonster
Can you set it approve registration?

Hrm.. I could but I'd much rather have it anonymous so people can easily post comments. I guess that's why I'm getting spammed lol

 

[HardcoreRobot]

i have all my comments sent to my email for me to approve first. its still spam and they deserve to die, but at least it doesnt make it on my site as free advertisement

 

[cronos]

disallow http link in your blog.
of course that would affect legit commenters, but if a legit commenter really need to post a link he could find a way around it.

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
i have all my comments sent to my email for me to approve first. its still spam and they deserve to die, but at least it doesnt make it on my site as free advertisement

hrm... greymatter doesn't have that option. Should be an easy hack though.. great idea. :thumbsup: