Turning off comments [Archive]

HypeXR

08-27-2006, 11:59 PM

I have finally reached the point of "crazy" with all of the spam comments and can take no more. I am using Anti-comment-SPAM and Akismet but I am still getting hit by around 5-50 spams a day. Before the two plugins I probably pull in between 100 and 200. So they helped but not enough as I don't have time to delete the spam that makes it through.

I can't figure out how to disable comments? Any help?

Thanks,
Scott

Connie

08-28-2006, 06:11 AM

any information about the version which you use, would be helpful

did you upgrade to the latest version?

GeoS

08-28-2006, 06:21 AM

Search forum - there are posts saying how to do that.

DikkieBurger

08-28-2006, 10:09 AM

You should use the captcha addon/hack, no spam anymore! :rolleyes:

bbd

09-01-2006, 08:53 AM

I'm using Pixelpost 1.5 and am also getting hundreds of Spam per day. Akismet isn't doing the business for me.

Connie - can you assist?

GeoS - I've searched the forums and can't find and info on this, can you point me in the right direction

thanks

C

GeoS

09-01-2006, 11:53 PM

I.e. comment system based on AJAX. I need to get some free time to make public solution similar to mine.

PS For now you can try many CAPTCHA solutions.

HypeXR

09-06-2006, 03:01 AM

I am running the newest version, 1.5.

I am using CAPTCHA and Akismet. I can't figure out how I am still getting so much spam with CAPTCHA. When I test it out it only lets the comments go through when I enter the code correctly, but somehow the bots have it mastered. Is there something obvious I did wrong, http://photoblog.hypexr.org/ ?

This AJAX solution sounds great. :) I will keep my eyes open.

PS. I still can not find that post about how to turn off comments. :(

Vernon.Trent

09-06-2006, 04:20 AM

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I still can not find that post about how to turn off comments. :(

http://forum.pixelpost.org/showpost.php?p=25426&postcount=11)

HypeXR

09-09-2006, 04:51 AM

It seems that I have a magical spam problem now.....

I commented out the sql_save line and I removed the add comments link in my template, but I am still getting spam messages. Not as many, but about 5 today on the front page post. Any ideas for this one? Tnx

glloeb

09-10-2006, 03:57 AM

I don't understand, why do some blogs get insane spam and others get none? I have had no issues with spam from the start. Can someone explain this?

vxt

09-10-2006, 05:17 AM

I would like to know too, and how the heck do those spam bots read the security word? Insanity!

vxt

09-10-2006, 05:20 AM

It seems that I have a magical spam problem now.....

I commented out the sql_save line and I removed the add comments link in my template, but I am still getting spam messages. Not as many, but about 5 today on the front page post. Any ideas for this one? Tnx

Maybe delete the whole comment code from your site for a while. make backup of course. They might still have the link to your comments.html or whatever file there may be.

HypeXR

09-11-2006, 05:24 AM

Commenting out
sql_save("INSERT INTO ".$pixelpost_db_prefix."comments... as mentioned here: http://forum.pixelpost.org/showthread.php?t=2351&page=2 is only part of the solution to stopping comments.

I found the "SAVE COMMENT" section in index.php and commented out the line that saves the comment to the db:

$result = mysql_query($query);

This removes the sql insert that was causing me to continue to get comment spam. No more spam / comments yet. :) (It feels horrible being happy about getting comments disabled when I have spend so long fighting / trying to prevent them only to give up now. Ohh well, no comments is better than having "penis" and "transvestite" posted hundreds of times bellow pictues of family and friends)

rockyrapier

09-13-2006, 07:35 PM

Thanks HypeXR. I also run Akismet but get 100's of spam everyday. Nice to be able to turn them off while I find a solution that works to get that number well down.

GeoS

09-15-2006, 10:09 AM

You can test this:
http://forum.pixelpost.org/showthread.php?t=5074

Maybe it will help (as I dont get any spam with very similar solution).

dallen

04-13-2013, 10:26 PM

Commenting out
sql_save("INSERT INTO ".$pixelpost_db_prefix."comments... as mentioned here: http://forum.pixelpost.org/showthread.php?t=2351&page=2 is only part of the solution to stopping comments.

I found the "SAVE COMMENT" section in index.php and commented out the line that saves the comment to the db:

$result = mysql_query($query);

This removes the sql insert that was causing me to continue to get comment spam. No more spam / comments yet. :) (It feels horrible being happy about getting comments disabled when I have spend so long fighting / trying to prevent them only to give up now. Ohh well, no comments is better than having "penis" and "transvestite" posted hundreds of times bellow pictues of family and friends)

I give up. Which index.php file are you referring to? I don't see amy code like that in any of the pixelpost index.php files.

nox

04-30-2013, 06:29 PM

I give up. Which index.php file are you referring to? I don't see amy code like that in any of the pixelpost index.php files.

If you are still looking for a way to turn off comments:
1. Open the index.php in your pixelpost root directory (the one with addons-. admin- and includes-folders)
2. Find line 962
3. Change from
require("includes/functions_comments.php");
to
// require("includes/functions_comments.php");
4. Save the change.
5. You might want to change your comment_template.html in your template folder as well, to let your visitors know that commenting is disabled.