Tag archives for splogs

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

The first time I ever saw one of my blogs on another site I was enraged. “They stole my content!” It was verbatim. They could have at least changed the wording a bit. Then I realized that they were tapping into my RSS to steal it, strip it of links, and post without credit. [...]

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. [...]

Everyone needs help defending themselves against the wicked little robots that roam about creating spam blogs, sometimes by the thousands. Your WPMU installation can quickly become overrun and deleting these fake users can take hours. This is an unacceptable waste of your time. Getting rid of splogs once and for all depends [...]

Is anyone else out there in WPMU-land getting increasingly freaking annoyed by gmail and their utterly lax approach to sploggers?
I mean… I love gmail, in my personal and professional life, I wouldn’t dream of even recommending – yet alone using – another email client.
But unfortunately that seems to be the way that sploggers – people [...]

Taken from: The WordPress MU Manual
Add New Users
Add new users controls whether blog owners are allowed to add new users to their blog. The default setting is Yes. Most circumstances you would allow blog owners to add new users.

Banned Names
You can ban specific names in WPMU so that no one can register with that username [...]

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 [...]

WPMU Spam reporter is a plugin that allows readers to report a splog and sends you an email that contains all the information of the blog being reported.
Version 0.2 has a few new functions: change email destination and/or the text of the button.
Download: WPMU Spam Reporter
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