I’m utterly sick and tired of comment spam, I get about one every two or three minutes. I have Spam Karma installed, and that keeps the spam off the page, but I get emails about the spam and it takes up my bandwidth. So, I’ve installed Referrer Karma which is supposed to block certain IPs from even reaching your site. It even integrates with the Spam Karma balcklist. You can see the logs here, and it seems to be working OK so far.

Please, if you have any issues accessing the site, please let me know. Erm, is it worth me putting that? If you can’t access the site, you can’t see it…..

I also added a rewrite rule to my .htaccess file, as suggested by Dr. Dave:

RewriteRule ^blog/.*
http://shakykaiser.com/blog/wp-content/referrer-karma.php
?rk_redirect_to=&rk_ban_this_ip=1 [NC,L]

This rule insures that any spambot randomly trying to locate a Wordpress script (e.g. wp-comments-post.php) will end up in my permanent banlist: not only will they receive a 403, but the next time they try accessing any other areas of my blog, they’ll still receive a 403.

So let’s see, spam count up until now was 3224, plus the 1400 I reset when I fooked something up, 1000 of which came in the last day or so. Let’s see if this slows them down.

UPDATE: 20 mins in and it’s already blocked 27 attempts.

Parts of the site might be broken for a while, e.g. comments. Currently upgrading to Wordpress 1.5.

UPDATE: should be just about OK now. Archives are not working as I would like (not showing the full posts), but everything else should be good. Let me know if anything weird happens.