So, where were we?
This blog stopped being updated in late January as the main contributors left Greece and things there seemed to be getting quiter. With so many developments in the country not covered in the least by national or international media, the need was felt for this blog to be reactivated… So here it is. Same “rules” as before apply: updates will be irregular; comments will be disabled in most posts due to excessive spamming (if any of you are familiar with the wordpress platform and think you can help out on this one, get in touch!)
Posts for the next few weeks will include a mix of translations of communiques, statements etc. released from Greece, updates on the prisoners of the revolt and news updates from the ground, by the new people that are reporting from Athens and Thessaloniki.
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Stopping spam comments with WP is relatively simple. From your Dashboard go to:
Settings > Discussion
Then under ‘Other comment settings’ tick the ‘Comment author must fill out name and e-mail’ option, and/or ‘Users must be registered and logged in to comment.’
Then tick the ‘Comment author must have a previously approved comment’ option under ‘Before a comment appears’ if you are going to be able to check in relatively frequently (once a day, say); this means all first-time comments are held in a queue, but previous commenters should be able to post without any moderation necessary.
Finally, under ‘Comment moderation’, I would advise that you ‘Hold a comment in the queue if it contains 2 or more links’, and also put in some keywords, partial keywords and known dodgy IP addresses into the ‘Comment Blacklist’ lower down (eg drugs, pharmacy, sex, freewebhosting360.com, viagra, v1agra etc).
These steps should firstly prevent any spam comments getting published automatically, and also reduce the number of suspect comments which need to be manually filtered in the moderation queue.
Hope this helps.
I second those recommendations, and also suggest you look at two WordPress plugins that will make your life much easier:
1) Akismet
2) Spam Karma
both easy to use, and used in conjunction should result in zero spam, and almost zero false positives.
Glad you’re back.
Likewise!
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