While developing and testing our new Anti-Splog plugin on Edublogs we have been making a lot of sploggers very unhappy. A nifty feature of the Anti-Splog plugin is that when you mark a blog as spam instead of that boring white warning screen showing when you visit the splog you get a pretty, branded notification [...]
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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, [...]
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 [...]
Tagged: Anti-Spam, buddypress plugin, edublogs, premium plugins, spam, splog, splogs, used in edublogs
Are you tired of visiting your BuddyPress site and finding spam users littering up your membership directory? Despite our best efforts, sometimes spammers are able to get through and create accounts. There is a plugin you should know about in the continual battle of man against evil machines, specifically those designed to create splogs. [...]
Tagged: activation, buddypress, Community, customize emails, moderation, spam, spam accounts, splog, splogs, wpmu
by admin
Donncha, doesnt stop working for the WPMU community. He just annouced the release WP-Hashcash plugin for WordPress Mu modified to work on the signup page and help stop splogs automated signups.
This is the description of the plugin and it features:
WP Hashcash is an antispam plugin that eradicates comment spam on Wordpress blogs. It works because [...]
by admin
Whats is reCAPTCHA?
reCAPTCHA is an anti-spam method originating from Carnegie Mellon University which uses CAPTCHAs in a genius way. Instead of randomly generating useless characters which users grow tired of continuosly typing in, risking the possibility that spammers will eventually write sophisticated spam bots which use OCR libraries to read the characters, reCAPTCHA uses a [...]
