Spam comments, a dish best served, never.
What is it?
A series of measures designed to reduce comment spam on your Quick Blogcast site. These include the captcha graphic (security code) on the comment page, time based limits that specify how many items you can reply to in a given time period, email verification, and some items we’re keeping to ourselves. (It’s amazing what you can achieve with alien technology)
What does it do?
It increases the odds that an actual person is leaving the comment rather than an automated system soliciting you to gamble, buy medication online, or fill in the blank.
The internet is more _ _ _ _
The first time we receive a comment from an email address unknown to Quick Blogcast, we issue an email asking the sender to confirm their address before passing the comment along to the blog owner. Once the email address has been confirmed, the comment will display and the owner can handle it with their normal workflow.
How do I use it?
Most likely, you already are. This is the default behavior within Blogcast, and one we encourage. If you wish to allow anonymous comments, you can do so by going to
Manage blog>settings> Discussions and then Check “allow anonymous comments” and then click Save. This removes the email confirmation process.
Why Should I care?
By doing this we hope you (a blogcast site owner) can peruse your comments without being deluged by a pile of automated junk; leaving you in control of what is ultimately approved as a comment. After that, the relationship between you and your readers will decide which works best for your particular blog.
Anything else I should know?
This is not a retroactive measure. An existing user that’s posted a comment on your blog would still receive a confirmation notice. You can still see comments from those users not yet confirmed by going into Manage Entries > Comments, and selecting view all from the drop down and then looking for items marked inactive. You can manually approve these if you wish.
Categories: Power Tips, Know Your Settings, Explanations
Let's talk a little bit about trackbacks.
My question is about the IP adresss ban that sits alongside the other controls for dealing with trackbacks.
When we mark a trackback as "ban IP" it stays inside of the trackback listings as a spam trackback. If I delete the spam trackback after marking it as spam it kicks it out of the list.
If we delete the previously marked "ban IP" trackback, does QuickBlog still keep that IP as banned? I can't find a listing of banned IP's.
Thanks in advance.
Greetings Austin,
I'm checked this behavior and a banned IP would be lifted after the item that it was created it from has been deleted. You can check to see if an IP is still within the list by going into trackbacks, opening one up and banning it, note down the IP address. Go into manage blog > blacklist. Search for this IP, change the ban reason to something you will recall. Now back into trackbacks, delete the item. Last step , go into manage blacklist again and you should see that the banned IP is still present.
Regards
John
Quick Blogcast Team
Regards
Excellent. Thanks.
This is great and anything that helps reduce or defeat comment spam is hugely welcome. I had a lot of previous issues with trackback spamming where I'd get many dozens of junk links added to the trackback (I ended up just turning these off altogether).
Is there anything I can do to prevent these issues with trackbacks?
many thanks,
[Steve Nimmons, SOA & Web2.0 Evangelist]
Greetings Steve,
Sadly I can't think of further actions you could take to reduce excess trackback spam that aren't horribly manual. E.g as bad as dealing with it on a case by case basis. I was thinking of an system that closed down trackbacks on older entries based on a time period the owner suggests which may still get in there one day. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Regards
John
QBC team