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Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.
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I noticed. Of course, sometimes your security code image is cut off on one side or another. But other than that, no worries from the commenting side of things.
Happy 4th. Win some money….! =)
I’ve been using WordPress on several sites for a while now and have been using it since the very early stages, back in the 0.71 days. The way I combat spam is by not allowing a comment to pass through unless the comment author has already has an approved comment. Personally I can’t stand giving readers another hoop to jump through (such as the security code) and as a reader, sometimes I won’t comment on a site just for that reason. :-/ I guess I don’t like to punish my readers for something they didn’t do.
Nick,
Well, I guess it’s one of those perception issues. I think having spambots take over the site making it unusable is worse than requiring a step that was effective in blocking them. It certainly was never intended as a punishment.
Bill
I definitely see your point Bill. Spammers are a bitch! The way I use WordPress works quite well. I get spam, but it’s all moderated on the admin side. If a commenter has had an approved comment, any future comments automatically go live. If someone hasn’t been approved before, the comment goes into moderation.
I just had to enter a code. Did you switch back?
I use Wordpress and Bad Behavior plugin. Since I installed Bad Behavior, I haven’t had a SINGLE spam comment. Prior to that, I was getting a lot, and I have a 3 month old site.
Nope. I haven’t changed a thing.
Well, this site has been around in one form or another for 6 or 7 years so you can only imagine the number of attempts :-) Every time I have used the code entry plugin my comment spam has dropped to zero. I think it’s a fair trade off all things considered. Nearly all of the other plugins I looked at had pluses and minuses and in the end I went with the code validation. Also, as I looked at the technologies being employed on both sides of the battle I thought it would be much harder to parse images and extract characters than it would be to simply find what rules flagged a comment as spam and re-writing one’s bot software to circumvent those rules.
That’s really what most of this comment spam thing comes down to. Every time someone comes up with a defense, the spammers change their tactics. It’s a cat and mouse game. At the moment, it seems that the methodology I’ve used to prevent comment spam is beyond the comment spammer’s ability while many of the Baysean and rules based methods are under constant attack as the comment spammers attempt to circumvent those prevention techniques.
Bill