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How We Block Proxies, Bots, Scrapers, Trolls & Assholes

As a website owner, you probably have at least a few good reasons to block bots and scrapers.  Scrapers steal your content and unruly bots can do anything from eating your bandwidth to trying to hack into your site. As a forum or community owner, you may also have reasons to block proxies.  Proxies are what [...]

22 August 2009 at 19:26 - Comments
daphne (1 comments)
How do you go about detecting elite proxies and blocking them?
7 November 09 at 03:00
Randy Brown (119 comments)
BadBehavior does a pretty good job of blocking elite proxies. I dont know if it blocks all of them, ...
7 November 09 at 09:23

Your Life Just Got Miserable Again

Comment spam is on the rise.. Fight back!

2 July 2009 at 09:19 - Comments
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Jannie Funster (1 comments)
I needs to activate me that Askimet. So tired of spam. And tired of manually inputting the Blacklisted ...
3 July 09 at 09:47
Randy Brown (119 comments)
[quote comment="2368"] Spammers, get thee some Real Jobs,please.[/quote] Sadly, a good spammer probably earns more money than you and me combined.. I ...
3 July 09 at 09:51

BadBehavior WhiteList For Good Bots & Crawlers

If you use BadBehavior and you don’t scour your BadBehavior logs every day,  you may not realize that “out of the box” BadBehavior may be blocking a few good bots.  Blocking these ‘good’ bots could adversely affect your search rankings, result in poorly targeted contextual ads, and hair-loss.  Lucky for you though, I have no [...]

12 March 2009 at 16:02 - Comments

Community Spam Fighting

Comment Spam -  If you run a forum or a blog you know what a scourge it can be.  I’ve made posts in the past about how we keep GrownUpGeek.com 99% spammer-free, but since our upgrade to Drupal 5.1, we’ve changed a few things making us now virtually 100% comment-spammer free. We’re still using the Bad [...]

10 October 2008 at 15:05 - Comments