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Post subject: Spam Issue With Cutenews  Posted: June 29th, 2007, 6:56 pm |
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Joined: 28 June 2005
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Grrr! One of my updates has 2070 comments, and other than 3 of them, they're ALL SPAM.
*dies*
Does anyone know how to prevent spam with cutenews? Or will I have to install wordpress?
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Post subject: Posted: July 3rd, 2007, 10:35 pm |
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I get a lot of spam, too... but then I put in an e-mail form just for kicks, because I decided that it might be easier for people to contact me, so the spam seems to have moved from Cutenews to that...
My e-mail inbox gets a lot of form submission spam though, but thankfully nobody can see it.
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Post subject: Posted: July 4th, 2007, 4:01 am |
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I'd have switchced to wp ages ago but it requires a database which I haven't got.. oops. I think there's an option in cutenews so only registered users can post comments but then some people don't wanna register :/
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Post subject: Posted: July 12th, 2007, 1:58 am |
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Joined: 03 June 2005
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Location: Australia
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There is an IP blocking option. This won't fix the problem completely, but it will stop people repeatedly spamming.
It can all be done from within the admin section.
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Post subject: Posted: July 12th, 2007, 2:59 am |
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I think I've blocked no less than 80 IPs...  _________________
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Post subject: Posted: July 21st, 2007, 1:52 am |
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80!? I've only blocked one. :S
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Post subject: Posted: July 21st, 2007, 3:50 am |
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Lucky you... I left my site for a month or so because I was busy... and when I came back, it was PACKED with spam. I was so shocked....
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Post subject: Posted: July 27th, 2007, 9:35 am |
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^Yeah, I was shocked when one of my updates had 2000 comments. :O I tried blocking a few IP's but then noticed that they were all different. *cries*
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Post subject: Posted: August 5th, 2007, 7:26 am |
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Aww. *hugs Keyo* You poor thing.
I would recommend just installing wordpress, but that would be a little hypocritical. I've yet to figure it all out. So confuzzling!
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Post subject: Posted: August 11th, 2007, 11:26 am |
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Joined: 04 June 2005
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I know there are ways that you can add a "verify email address" box or one of those images that you have to type what you see...but I'm not quite sure how to do it  Maybe just google "blocking spam with Cutenews" and something might come up  _________________ 
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Post subject: Posted: August 12th, 2007, 12:30 am |
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Keyo, I gave you a link to the Captcha hack.. did it work? I didn't install it since my Cutenews hasn't gotten any spam at all since I started my site up again.
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Post subject: Posted: October 4th, 2007, 2:16 pm |
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Post subject: Posted: November 15th, 2007, 6:05 am |
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Celebwen - Ugg it looks too complicated. I guess I'll just have a tagboard for now... EA uses HaloScan, which I thought I might install if I really want comments on my updates.
Haldir - Meh, I tried it. Too complicated for me LOL.
JF - Oo! Punch me!  _________________ <center>
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Post subject: Posted: November 15th, 2007, 8:37 am |
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Omg, my inbox is completely littered with SPAM. I get a spam comment every minute! What the heck is up with that!  _________________
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Post subject: Posted: February 6th, 2008, 1:48 pm |
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Joined: 27 September 2005
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Location: Germany
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I know this was quite a while ago, but I was just reading it.
I installed WordPress a while ago and it was all fine, but I started getting spam too. Eugh.
I don't think it's really that different from CuteNews on the spam-front. I mean it lets you block people and so on easily, but I don't know if it's thats that different from CuteNews.
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