Hi Bogdan

This is very good news, thanks for letting us know.  We'll inform our clients the same.

Kind regards

Same here Pay Day Loans has cracked the syetem and has done so for a long long time. I just deleted the comments code  from yet another clients blog just this morning to stop it happening. They are not the only ones but one of the more common and it has been quite heavy in the lst few months.

We have also seen a lot of falsified System Messages made to look and feel like a message coming from the partner portal. Basically these false emails are trying to probe for access details and trying to get you to login into a false site. We reported this early last year but never got a response from BC about it. It has been a while now since we have seen one or had one reported by a client but I am sure they are still going on.

I do not think the setup of the BC addressing is very smart either. By having every site retain a public link being http://mybusinessname.businesscatalyst.com allows for spammers to very easily do a search for every site hosted in BC and then sytematically start hacking all. Try typing in .businesscatalyst.com into Goggle and see the scary listings start to appear.

I have heard of spamming farms being setup out of Asia so the cheap 'human' element just goes and spam by hand all day long (what a life).

This problem is getting to be a huge hassle. I hope that you are taking this seriously. I too am having serious doubts as to whether to choose Business Catalyst as a platform for new customers. I just started a new business and don't know if I will choose BC as a platform for its website—even though I know it well and it would be time effective for me to do so.

My clients are getting dozens of these a day. Needless to say they are PISSED OFF. Just remember, **** flows downhill.

Ditto I have had to rip comments out of every website and replace with facebook comments because the lack of action is terrible. Still getting heaps through contact us forms and that has to be fixed because I can't rip those out ... sadly you have wasted so much of my time having to maintain sites when I shouldn't have to.

That's good to hear.

@Lynda they do make a recaptcha api for active server, of course. Almost anything would be better than they one they have.

It has come to a point where I feel this blog spam issue is at an intolerable state. Yet again for the 4th time in as many weeks I have had a request by yet another a client to remove all ability for the blog to allow comments in order to simply stop the rate of spam comments coming through. Even though the comments were initially moderated in this case to try and stem it, it still meant every day trawling through the comments and deleting all the spam by Payday Loans.

Not only has it totally removed the ability for my clients to even work on a social media level anymore but it makes myself (and I am sure any other partner with the issue) look like idiots for ever recommending this system.

This issue has to be addressed NOW. BC may not care as there is plenty more fish in the sea but for our business a few clients are now speaking about seriously moving and that means we are also looking at other CMS's.

If BC needs volunteer sites to test Akismet I am more than willing to volunteer a few blogs right now.

Hi Liam,

I can't see how I am able to edit the Blog Comment form to remove the URL field. I have inserted the tag {tag_fullname_nolink} in place of {tag_fullname} within the Comments Layout Template in the hope this will help.

Any help gratefully accepted.

Cheers

We're having the same issues as well with tons of spam comments each day. Is there any way to delete them all at once, without having to click on "Delete" one by one?

We have had to disable comments on several client blogs and both they and us are feeling extremely frustrated by this issue. 21st August  can't come soon enough for the new release as the whole thing is costing us time, money and goodwill. As designers and marketers rather than programmers we rely on BC to keep things running smoothly hence our investment in the system. Being made to look like complete 'wallies' in the eyes of our clients is not helpful. Your efforts to resolve this asap are most welcome....

This morning's email from a client

How are you progressing on spam. It is appalling today.

  Deirdre

This looks good Dragos. Can't wait!

My opinion is that V2 needs to become redundant at some stage and I am sure BC is of the same view. As to how this is done I canot say. There are already several things that no longer work corrcetly in V2 but switch to V3 and all is good. Really though if it is no extra work to implement into V2 then it should be there. I will be working towards my clients that have made the spam complaints go to V3 as a process to take advantage of the new system enhancements as part of the training.

Thanks again and keep us in the loop.

Haaaaa. Ever tried training a old dog new tricks. Some clients just won't budge. Depreciation will happen of course and for them a year or two of V3 should be enough to move over permenantly.

Hi Dragos,

Great update. A vast improvement. Where can we find out exactly how it works, for instance, what happens to the posts once they are marked as spam? So far they just seem to stay there?

Peter