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Due to a dramatic increase of trackback spam following recent site revisions, D5GW will now attempt to block frequent spam loads by blocking site access for would-be spammers, via .htaccess filtering of posts based on certain words included in feedback.
My apologies for any inconvenience this may present not only to visitors wishing to leave feedback, but also to contributors writing posts! All posting action which includes the following key words will be blocked directly by the server:
(I am posting this list as an image, because I will not be able to post the actual words! The image will update if and when new words are added to the list.)
Of course, D5GW will always constrain the list of banned words, to limit the inconvenience for our valued commenters, trackbackers, and contributors!
Posted by Curtis Gale Weeks on Mar 13, 2007 02:58 AM
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Understood, but I thought that the dynamically-updating image for a feature of the blog software for a second, so robots couldn’t tell what words were getting them blocked. That would have been ultra-cool! :-)
I wish the image could be updated dynamically! Instead, whenever I add a word to the .htaccess commands (directives? whatever), I have to edit the image to include that word and upload the new image. I think that most trackback spam is automated, and I doubt that bots will first find this entry, scan the image to detect which words they can’t use, and apply that knowledge for every trackback link on D5GW!
A lot of would-be spammers have already been blocked. Unfortunately, I’m not going to be able to block one drug name because it’s part of another word that might get some use for the subject of 5GW: ambient. Heh.
D’Oh! The first word on the list should not be on the list — I couldn’t post an entry, because of it! I’ll change the image when I have a chance, have already dropped it from the .htaccess file. Let’s just say that anyone using the word “specialist” would have received a 412 Precondition Failed message…!
BTW, anyone receiving that message is receiving it because somewhere in their post is a string of characters matching one of the words above.