Ogawa::Hacks

HOW TO CUSTOMIZE: Filtering Policy

The default policy of this plugin is to drop comments and trackback pings which have H1 and A elements. If you want to change your target, you can customize $COMMENT_PATTERN and $TBPING_PATTERN variable.

# Set your spam pattern
our $COMMENT_PATTERN = '<h1>|<a\s'; # H1 or A elements
our $TBPING_PATTERN = '<h1>|<a\s'; # H1 or A elements

You can change the is_comment_spam and is_tbping_spam subroutines if you want more clever mechanisms for filtering.

sub is_comment_spam {
    my $comment = shift;
    return ($comment->text =~ /$COMMENT_PATTERN/i);
}
 
sub is_tbping_spam {
    my $tbping = shift;
    return ($tbping->excerpt =~ /$TBPING_PATTERN/i);
}

HOW TO CUSTOMIZE: Reaction to Commment Spammers

The default reaction to comment spammers is "NOT TO TELL SPAMMERS WHETHER COMMENT SUBMISSIONS ARE SUCCEEDED OR NOT, BUT KILL THEM" reaction :) The Quasi-Spam Filter Plugin supports the following six reactions to comment spammers. And you can choose one of them by setting $COMMENT_METHOD variable.

CommentFilter

This method does not tell spammers whether comment submissions are succeeded or not.

CommentThrottleFilter

This method tells spammers that their comment submissions are failed by MT throttling mechanism.

CommentError (Default)

Just outputs a simple "Spam Comment!" message. This is the most light-weight solution.

CommentLongError

Outputs a kind error message by using "Comment Error Template".

CommentRedirect

Redirects to the URL specified by $URL variable. You can leed spammers to "Enlightment" site, or "Bizarre" site, or whatever else.

CommentEvilRedirect

Redirects to the URL specified by the URL field of spammers. If no URL is filled, redirects to the URL specified by $URL variable.

If you want to stop filtering spam comments, just set anything else (ex. '') to $COMMENT_METHOD variable.

HOW TO CUSTOMIZE: Reaction to Trackback Spammers

The default reaction to trackback spammers is "NOT TO TELL SPAMMERS WHETHER TRACKBACK PINGS ARE SUCCEEDED OR NOT, BUT KILL THEM" reaction :) The Quasi-Spam Filter Plugin supports the following three reactions to trackback spammers. And you can choose one of them by setting $TBPING_METHOD variable.

TBPingFilter

This method does not tell spammers whether trackback pings are succeeded or not.

TBPingThrottleFilter

This method tells spammers that their trackback pings are failed by MT throttling mechanism.

TBPingError (Default)

Just outputs a simple "TBPing Comment!" message. This is the most light-weight solution.

If you want to stop filtering spam TB pings, just set anything else (ex. '') to $TBPPING_METHOD variable.

SEE ALSO

Ogawa::Memoranda: Quasi-Spam Filter Plugin (Totally in Japanese)

LICENSE

This code is released under the Artistic License. The terms of the Artistic License are described at http://www.perl.com/language/misc/Artistic.html.

AUTHOR & COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2004, Hirotaka Ogawa (hirotaka.ogawa at gmail.com)