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EE Users - Change Your Comments Labels

February 21, 2008 in ExpressionEngine
Short URL: http://boyink.me/s/3750

Just a quick heads-up for the ExpressionEngine users coming to Boyink.com. 

I’ve been getting a few more than normal spam comments the last couple of days.  I noted in my search logs that they are coming in with referrer phrases like

community “Remember my personal information” “Notify me of follow-up comments.”

then hand-entering comments for the sole purpose of linking to their site.

In other words, they are targeting EE blogs by using the default labels on the comments form in their searches.  I’ve changed the labels on my comments form this morning to some alternate wording to see if it helps mitigate the spam.

EE techie note - this was one of those payback moments for implementing my weblogs all with a shared comments form.  Even though I run four blogs on the site, changing the wording in one template took care of all of them.

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  1. Simon on February 23, 2008

    Thanks for the heads-up, just noticed the same thing as I looked through my referrers.

  2. Bill on March 13, 2008

    Great tip, I have noticed this aswell on my blog..

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