[GLLUG] Spam Comments

[Charles Ulrich]

On Aug 5, 2010, at 9:13 AM, Clay Dowling <clay at lazarusid.com> wrote:

> On 8/5/10 12:14 AM, Marshal Newrock wrote:
>> On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:53:09 -0400
>> Chick Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I see someone named lymanknap is spamming the comments of the events
>>> on the GLLUG website, and the main page has a lot of spam in the
>>> comments. Is there anything we can do to prevent such spam but allow
>>> members to leave comments?  Is there anyone in GLLUG who approves  
>>> new
>>> users for posting privileges?
>>
>> For now, I've deleted a bunch of spam comments and blocked several
>> users.  Next will be better ways of preventing comment spam.
>
> I had this problem on another drupal site.  I strongly recommend
> installing the captcha module and turning it on for the comment and  
> the
> registration forms.  When I did that the problem went away.
>
> If the actual perpetrators can be found, there is a very effective
> solution involving restraints and a ball gag, but it's usually a lot  
> of
> work to track these guys down.
>
> Clay
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There is a recapcha module for drupal that works quite well. It can be  
set up so that it only challenges anonymous users, upon registration,  
or for everything. I'd be happy to lend a hand.

Charles
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