Blog Flak

If your Wordpress blog / website is receiving a lot of automated spam you may want to check out the plugin by Homeland Stupidity called Bad Behavior. It’s been around for quite a while now but something this good is always worth mentioning again. It’s a very small download and you just upload the unzipped folder into your Wordpress plugins folder and then activate it in your Plugins section within the Wordpress dashboard. It couldn’t be simpler!

So far it has blocked all access to my sites with spam bots and I’m very much impressed. There are some scattered reports of actual people being blocked from commenting so you may want to decide for yourself if you want to use it. Akismet has done a very good job as well by stopping the spam from actually hitting my comments moderation but I still felt like the spammers were getting over on me. They would still dump hundreds of spams into my sites, sometimes with hundreds of links in a single comment and I found that extremely annoying even though Akismet would “hold” it for review. Now they don’t even get that far!

If you’re anything like me and wish that the spam-tards would all just eat sh*t and die then this plugin might be for you!