Fighting CMS Spam with Greg Aker

Spam. Whether it is in your comments, your forums or even your member profiles, it is, at best, annoying. At worst, spam is dangerous for your site and even your server. Special guest Greg Aker joins the show to share his experiences fighting the spam scourge, particularly within a CMS environment. He details the solutions he’s tried, from services like Akismet to custom-built client-side approaches. We also discuss how content management systems introduce challenges to the spam fight, as well as ways to leverage built-in configurations to prevent spam. And we share some of the different CMS add-ons we’ve used, and discuss the importance of choosing those add-ons carefully.
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Show Notes:

Safe Browsing
What Is a DDoS Attack?
cURL Functions
Imposter syndrome
Akismet
Low NoSpam
rel=nofollow
Master Config
CloudFlare
EE Spam Protect