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[nycphp-talk] stopping comment spam with PHP

Chris Snyder chsnyder at gmail.com
Tue Jun 2 16:53:12 EDT 2009


On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:47 PM, John Campbell <jcampbell1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> You should also make sure your comment system is using rel="nofollow",
> and doesn't have any XSS issues.
>
> If you aren't using rel="nofollow", and the site has page rank, then
> it will be worth the spammer's time to manually defeat your form.

If only that was true.

I've had rel="nofollow" in my comments froms since 2003 and I still
get dumb spammers who either don't know or don't care.



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