hi crafty alien,

how do you make sure comments have Nofollow set on?

Hey Mario - Hey ya i know long time No see!!!! how ya been ....

Thanks for this - The captcha settings wasn't set to enforce - so i ticked it for everything . Why would it not enforce though automatically?

Also - with that meta robots thing do i place it on the blot main layout? or just on the post? and what does this do - i tried reading that doco but it was a bit confusing.

so it doesnt stop regular search bots from following???

Thanks again for your help mario

I have tried the captcha thing (turning it on) but still getting some spam so I am looking into trying the No Index no follow

The thing is I was researching it and it looks like if I used the <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"> that would stop search engine bots from indexing the blog posts??  Would that mean that the website would not get the SEO benefit from all posts? http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2007/03/using-robots-met a-tag.html

I am not sure if I am correct on this does anyone have any feedback on this?

Is there any other way to try and stop bots from filling out the comments? seems these ones are either human or bypassing the captcha still ..... hmmmm

I have clients coming at my left right and centre as there has been a massive amount of #paydayloans etc coming through, they don't end up in your unapproved ... it's a little odd. I have heaps on my own site too but they don't show on the blog, in the unapproved but do in the live feed. Is there anything happening at the moment to stop the blogs being exploited?

Yep, the payday loans are the most frequent blog spammers I'm seeing every day.

I would like to try removing the 'website' field from the comments form to see if deters them, but can't find any way to do this :-(

We are getting lots of SPAM on this URL - http://www.theartofvacationing.com/_blog/Timeshare_Talk/post/When_is_M arriott%27s_Maintenance_Fees_NOT_Maintenance_Fees/#comments

All posts.

Thanks Mario though the one that is getting the most payday loans spam already has that setting ticked ... can you help out with any other suggestion?

We are getting it as well from "cash advance loan".

Our site: www.lechameauUSA.com

The spammer's email: fkokooeelel@gmail.com. I can forward you the customer comment form if it would help.

Chuck

(And yes, I have CAPTCHA activated and the settings are enabled.)

We have had the same problem with all our sites and decided to change them to use the Facebook comment module. We are probably losing a few commenters, but most customers prefer genuine comments over trolls and spammers.

HEy Mario,

ANy more updates on this?? All of my clients sites are now getting spammed even crazier - 5 - 10 times a day. Grrrrrrrr '

its all the pay day loans one - they are going to town now on all the blogs

Mario

Yup - definite increase in SPAM over multiple sites - clients bugging us constantly on it now.  Looking forward to that solution from the Dev team.

Cheers.

We have also had a dramatic increase in spam over the last 6 weeks (www.changedesigns.net) on all comment forms on products, web pages, blogs, and announcements. Enforce captcha validation has been set (ticked) for everything but it is still not prenenting the flood. We have to daily manually delete stacks of spam comments and it is taking up a lot of time.

It looks as though it is definitely a bot and not a human as I had previously commented out a comment form in the announcement layout but the bot still used the commented out code in the served page to execute the form submission while bypassing the captcha. I did a bit of research and it seems that the spammers can buy cracked codes for websites and then they keep refreshing the captcha until they get the word for the cracked code and then the form submission succeeds. BC is going to have to regularly change the codes on the backend to prevent this.

An email blacklist wont help as they never use the same name or email address twice, they are randomly generated with every attack. For the current bots the only thing in common is their injected url which is always around the theme of  loans or cash but this could change.

Just for claritys sake the spam doesnt make it onto the live webpage since we moderate all comments and so just delete them on the backend. The other hassle with the spam bots is them creating hundreds of new clents in the CRM database all the time, which we then have to delete.

hi all .. so i also have been getting hit with this issue ... i have a faq page well about 40 of them in fact.. only one is being tagetted with this .. never a comment made just 4 or 5 hits a day with bogus emails. like this haolhlhdlch@gmail.com and so on .. painful to remove from crm as already disscused .. would be nice to be able to have 1click remove all .. or have i missed it ??? anyway just to keep all informed .. i dont understand what the benift is to anybody doing this .. unless they just get a kick out of wasting their time

I'll add my site and my clients' sites to the list of websites that have seen a huge spike in blog and inquiry form spammers, most of which are payday loan messages. I'm hoping BC engineers make this a priority. Many clients aren't happy.

Also getting 2-3 payday loan comments a day; pain in the backside.

Is there a way of including nofollow on all comment links? Somewhere in the backend that I've missed?