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    • robi
      robi @d19dotca last edited by

      @d19dotca I hear you.. tough but still worth doing the correlation for other insights.

      The other thing you can look into is post comment/form filtering. Perhaps add your own question to solve that is accepted either way, but later helps tell you if you're dealing with a bot or human.

      From there there may be a few other things to try 😉

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      • d19dotca
        d19dotca @robi last edited by

        @robi Actually you lead me onto a great idea. I went and did some RBL checks on those IP addresses I see sending the forms, and sure enough most of the recent ones are in the Spamhaus XBL list. Now to see if I can somehow get that data into Cloudron as a large listing or something, may be a huge help in reducing spam / bots to the websites.

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        • jimcavoli
          jimcavoli App Dev @d19dotca last edited by

          @d19dotca Now that's a good thought!

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          • marcusquinn
            marcusquinn @d19dotca last edited by

            @d19dotca not had any spam issues TBH, so I think so. Like I say, we have the pro version but not harm in trying the free.

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            • robi
              robi @d19dotca last edited by

              @d19dotca
              Nice work, that's a great start - existing known spammers.

              Now they just need to be in the right format list.

              It would help to make a new thread with your findings and share the list.

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              • jdaviescoates
                jdaviescoates @d19dotca last edited by

                @d19dotca I always install Wordfence which I really like. You could also try https://wordpress.org/plugins/goodbye-captcha/

                The idea of bringing in spam IP lists sounds like a good plan too.

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                • robi
                  robi @jdaviescoates last edited by

                  @jdaviescoates Looking at WP Bruiser I can't tell what it does.. there's a lot of marketing around it but it also seems like a lot of cloak and dagger.

                  It would be nice to know how it works.

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                  • marcusquinn
                    marcusquinn @robi last edited by

                    @robi We use WP Bruiser with a bunch of add-on licences, generally we check everything for performance and code quality before committing to a choice, so it was a while back now but I don't recall any issues since.

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                    • robi
                      robi @marcusquinn last edited by

                      @marcusquinn that's nice. do you know what it does to stop bots?

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                      • marcusquinn
                        marcusquinn @robi last edited by

                        @robi I know we don't have a bot problem 🙂

                        Quick look at the reports on one website would suggest so:

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                        • robi
                          robi @marcusquinn last edited by

                          @marcusquinn it's ok to say you don't know how it works too 😆

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                          • marcusquinn
                            marcusquinn @robi last edited by

                            @robi I truly don't care how it works. I care about how things work that no-one else has solved 🙂

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                            • jdaviescoates
                              jdaviescoates @robi last edited by

                              @robi I've no idea how it works either!

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