You would think, in fact I did think, that the majority of splogs would be automatically created by clever bots toiling their way through smart, captcha-breaking scripts. But you’d be wrong, quite seriously wrong, because these days I’d guesstimate that the majority of splogs are human powered – and thus that much harder to catch. [...]
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In the never-ending battle against spam, WordPress plugin developers are constantly being challenged to create solutions that will block spam but still make it easy for genuine human users to comment and participate. A new tool is available for WordPress sites that provides a fun and intuitive captcha that is much simpler than requiring users [...]
by Aaron
For those who don’t know, we (Incsub) run one of the largest WPMU sites on the web with hundreds of thousands of blogs and users. The trouble was that edublogs was getting overwhelmed by splogs with hundreds of new ones being created every day. We never came close to staying caught up with them, and [...]
by Aaron
This is the plugin every WordPress MU or Buddypress admin has been waiting for! Announcing Anti-Splog, the ultimate plugin and service to stop and kill splogs in WPMU. This plugin goes way beyond any existing splog plugin for WPMU because at it’s core is the new Anti-Splog API service hosted at WPMU Dev Premium. This [...]
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