Spam in my comments

rubyonrails-talk
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I've started to get problems with my rails site, I've had loads of comments containing stuff like this...

http://pastie.org/343379

What can I do (have taken the site down for now).

I'm after a really simple solution, can i just do some clever validation to fail this cr&p?

I don't really want to implement captcha or the like if I can avoid it.

Site is down for now until I figure a solution, please let me know if you can help?

Thanks,

BB.

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You might use negative captchas, require login, common captchas, the askimet web service, there are plenty of ways to avoid spamming :slight_smile:

3

OK but what about just validation statements in the models?

Can I do it like that, maybe screening for some regex's ?

4

For what? A link?

Your user could paste a link.

There's no easy way to tell that a comment is a spam (you would need a tool to perform analysis on the comment content to mark it as spam, that's exactly what tools like Askimet do).

5

acts_as_snook is great for capturing stuff like that: http://github.com/rsl/acts_as_snook

6

superb, thanks! I put Snook in place. Looks great.

bb