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• Gerardo

  Posted on Oct 12, 2008 (permalink)

  I get a lot of ofensive spam in comment on my blogs.
  I set moderate comments, but ofensive spam are avoiding the moderation. Only normal comments are under moderation.
  I set captch for blog comment  but the spam continues appearing
  
  In comment list (on administration side) not IP show for spam comments.
  
  Any idea???

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• Sonya Sonya

  Posted on Oct 13, 2008 (permalink)

  Hello Gerardo,
  
  Could you please tell us what strategy you are using with CAPTCHA? You could get more information about the available ones from the following topic in the Developer Manual:Built-in Spam Protector Strategies
  
  
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  Sonya
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• Gerardo

  Posted on Oct 13, 2008 (permalink)

  Hi,
  
  the problem is with the blog comments.
  
  I set enableCaptcha to Blog Comments and i set moderate comments
  Ofensive spam are avoiding moderation (are visible).
  
  Thank.

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• Georgi Georgi

  Posted on Oct 14, 2008 (permalink)

  Hi Gerardo,
  
  Do you also have a trackback function enabled in your blogs? We had some problems with spam coming through the blog article trackback. This issue is fixed in Sitefinity 3.5 - there is a special spam filter for comments coming through the trackback.
  
  Best wishes,
  Georgi
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• Gerardo

  Posted on Oct 14, 2008 (permalink)

  I don't know.
  
  How i can disable  trackback?
  
  
  Thank in advance

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• Ricky Ricky

  Posted on Oct 16, 2008 (permalink)

  Hi Gerardo,
  
  You can disabled the trackback by removing the following handler from the web.config:
  

  <add name="Trackback" preCondition="integratedMode" verb="POST"

  path="trackback.ashx" type="Telerik.Cms.Engine.Trackback.TrackbackHandler, Telerik.Cms.Engine"/>

  
  One way to stop offensive comment is by enabling the spamprotector that comes with sitefinity 3.5 , you can get a free key from akismet, generally by registering for wordpress blogs.
  
  Remove the "disabled  = true" from the declaration:
  
  

  <spamProtector defaultProvider="akismet" disabled="true">

  <providers>

  <add name="akismet"

  type="Telerik.Cms.Engine.SpamProtector.AkismetProvider"

  key="#YOUR_KEY#"

  siteUrl="http://www.telerik.com/" />

  </providers>

  </spamProtector>

  
  We hope this helps!
  
  All the best,
  Mehfuz
  the Telerik team
  
  

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• Gerardo

  Posted on Oct 16, 2008 (permalink)

  Thank, i go to try it.
  
  I don't upgrade to 3.5 yet.
  
  
  
  Regards

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• Gerardo

  Posted on Oct 16, 2008 (permalink)

  I remove
   <add verb="POST" path="trackback.ashx" type="Telerik.Cms.Engine.Trackback.TrackbackHandler, Telerik.Cms.Engine" />
   
  
  is it rigth?

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• Ricky Ricky

  Posted on Oct 20, 2008 (permalink)

  Hi Gerardo,
  
  Yes that's right! This will prevent third parties from posting comments via trackback.
  
  Kind regards,
  

  Mehfuz
  

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• Kieran

  Posted on Sep 3, 2009 (permalink)

  Hi,
  
  I'm getting the same issue, did removing the web.config value work for you.
  
  Thanks
  Kieran

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• Georgi Georgi

  Posted on Sep 8, 2009 (permalink)

  Hello Kieran,
  
  Can you please let us know which is the current version that you use? Did you use the Akismet approach?

   
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• Kieran

  Posted on Sep 8, 2009 (permalink)

  Hi
  
  I'm using version 3.2. I tried a few approachs captcha, removed trackback but nothing worked. All the spam comments have no IP address so I updated the database to make IPAddresses not null and it looks like that might have worked.
  
  
  Kieran

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• Georgi Georgi

  Posted on Sep 8, 2009 (permalink)

  Hi Kieran,
  
  This sounds as a solution, but still we should not know what the cause is. Please let us know if you have any more details about the issue.

  
  Greetings,
  Georgi
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• terrysmith Intermediate

  Posted on Sep 12, 2009 (permalink)

  Do you change the www.telerick.com URL to your own domain? Is that sent to Akismet?
  
  

  <spamProtector defaultProvider="akismet" disabled="false">

  <providers>

  <add name="akismet"

  type="Telerik.Cms.Engine.SpamProtector.AkismetProvider"

  key="#YOUR_KEY#"

  siteUrl="http://www.telerik.com/" />

  </providers>

  </spamProtector>

  
  

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• Georgi Georgi

  Posted on Sep 14, 2009 (permalink)

  Hi Terry,
  
  That is correct. You need to change the siteUrl to your current site, and generate an API key for it. That is sent to Akismet indeed. If you disable it though, no data will be sent to Akismet and you can leave the siteUrl as it is.

  
  

  Let us know if you have any further questions.
  

  
  

  Best wishes,
  Georgi
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• Kristoffer

  Posted on Jan 23, 2012 (permalink)

  is the Akismet integration still present in 3.7? i can't find any documentation on it, nor is the block of code referenced by the above posts present in my web.config.
  
  my client is having an immense problem with spam on their blog comments. we have every option for the sfWeb:SpamProtector control turned on (enablecaptcha, enableautobotdiscovery, enablehiddentextboxstrategy, enablemintimeoutstrategy).
  
  they are currently having to moderate all comments even with these strategies in place, and the number of daily spam comments is simply too overwhelming to sort through in a reasonable time period.
  
  thanks

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• Georgi Georgi

  Posted on Jan 24, 2012 (permalink)

  Hello Kristoffer, 

  Yes, it's available in 3.7. To enable it, open the web.config and set the highlighted to true:
  

  <spamProtector defaultProvider="akismet" disabled="false">

        <providers>

          <add name="akismet"

               type="Telerik.Cms.Engine.SpamProtector.AkismetProvider"

               key="#YOUR_KEY#"

               siteUrl="http://www.telerik.com/" />

        </providers>

      </spamProtector>

  
  Don't forget to change the siteUrl property with the domain of your client, and to generate a key for it from the akismet website.

  Regards,
  Georgi
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• Kristoffer

  Posted on Jan 24, 2012 (permalink)

  excellent!
  
  could you point me to some documentation or explain what it will exactly do when enabled? i.e. will there be a new button in the admin to check moderated comments against Akismet? or will it just reject spam comments when they are posted (what msg will the user see)? or what?
  
  thanks!

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• Georgi Georgi

  Posted on Jan 25, 2012 (permalink)

  Hi Kristoffer,

  Unfortunately we do not have documentation on this, but here it is how it works. When a comment is submitted, it is sent to the Akismet servers for verification. If the comment is verified as safe, it's published on the Sitefinity powered blog. If it is identified as a spam, it is marked as hidden. All hidden comments can be checked via the administration interface, and can be marked as visible if they are marked as hidden by Akismet by mistake. 
  
  I hope this helps. 

  Kind regards,
  Georgi
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