Community Server Spam
If like me you use Community Server as your blogging engine, you may find that your blog suffers a ridiculous amount of spam blog comments!? (Or is that just me?!) Well, I had left the blog unattended for just over a month due to being busier than usual and I found almost 3000 spam comments…. So, time for action!
You are probably aware that “Community Server support a robust rules engine based SPAM tool” which appears to be completely useless! This so-called can be found under your blog’s advanced configuration under the “Comment SPAM” header – it doesn’t really appear to provide much configuration at all…….
Enter “Manage Spam Blocker” – this is located at the Site Administration of Community Server: Site Administration > Content/Site Security > Manage Spam Blocker
In here you should have a number of rules available, all of which by default are disabled(!), enable IP Frequency, Forbidden Word Blog Spam (configure with words of your choice) and any others and away you go – sort of – it works, but its not fantastic, you will still get some spam….