[okfn-help] Spam comments on blog.okfn.org

Mon Jan 17 20:07:31 GMT 2011

On 17/01/2011 19:30, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> Over past few days (/weeks?) we seem to be getting more and more spam
> on blog.okfn.org that (I presume) is making it past Akismet. Anything
> we can do about this? Its getting a bit intense. ;-)

FWIW we have been having a similar problem at EDINA recently.
What has been done there is to install a captcha before approving a 
person's first comment. Guessing it was this?

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-recaptcha/

Even that has not completely eradicated spam attempts!

jo
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