Spam Comments: "Appreciate the info, it’s good to know."

[kaltric]

Has anyone else had trouble with getting the spam comment "Appreciate the info, it's good to know" on your articles? Any advice for preventing this?

I have seen this on other Vivvo sites and also on non-Vivvo sites. We've had it happen several times on our site.

Examples:

http://pwpp.org/news/index.php/economics/examining-peru%E2%80%99s-gold-mining-conflict.html

http://news1.capitalbay.com/news/the_public_said_our_baby.html

Thanks.

[boccio]

Guess the simplest way would be to ban entire sentence. Did you try with IP range restriction?

[Fami40]

I have the same problem.

I think the best way is to hide the WEBSITE field in comments.

The spammers, using this field (WEBSITE) to promote their web sites.

If they can´t promote their websites, then do not publish SPAM comments.

How to hide the WEBSITE field the comments??

[DRIVE]

In yourvivvo/templates/box/comments_new.tpl

Change:
<vte:if test="{comment.get_www}">
<a href="http://{comment.get_www}" target="_blank"><vte:value select="{comment.get_author}" /></a>
<vte:else>
<strong><vte:value select="{comment.get_author}" /></strong>
</vte:else>
</vte:if>

to

<vte:if test="{comment.get_www}">
<vte:value select="{comment.get_author}" />
<vte:else>
<strong><vte:value select="{comment.get_author}" /></strong>
</vte:else>
</vte:if>

That is a quick and dirty workaround but like it's been said.... if they cant promote their websites, they wont post.

[Fami40]

This code don´t works.

In latest comments, still appearing the link to url website.

Still appearing the field "Your website:" in comments.

There are some way to hide this field??

Thanks.

[David Stone]

In my case when i upload new article..A comment is added automatically "this is awesome". I've started getting bored with my own article. and i can't remove the comment. Any ideas ?????:confused::confused::confused:

[Fami40]

Try this one:

http://www.vivvo.net/forums/showthread.php?t=8490

For me it´s works fine.

Since I have hide website field, I have "0 spam comments"