I’ve released the first version of the Bad Behavior Blackhole Plugin for WordPress.
Whenever someone posts a comment to your blog, or an incoming trackback or ping is received, it will be screened against the Bad Behavior Blackhole. If the originating IP address is found, the comment, trackback or ping will be marked as spam or placed in the moderation queue, depending on your preferences. You can also add additional realtime blackhole lists to the plugin, and a few examples are provided to get you started.
The Bad Behavior Blackhole Plugin for WordPress is meant to operate in conjunction with Bad Behavior itself. In a future release of Bad Behavior, the Bad Behavior Blackhole Plugin will be included in the package.
Bad Behavior Blackhole
Since the release of Bad Behavior 1.0 many hundreds of people have tried it and began enjoying spam-free blogging for the first time. My blog overflows with trackbacks, pings and comments from Bad Behavior users, which now outnumber all other comm…
Trackback by Wordpress Plugin Competition Blog — May 22, 2005 @ 6:10 am
Just curious: What protects the blackhole from being spammed?
Comment by Denis de Bernardy — May 22, 2005 @ 2:58 pm
Denis, this Web site uses Bad Behavior and the Bad Behavior Blackhole only. There are other protections in place on the machine against denial of service attacks and the like.
Comment by IO ERROR — May 23, 2005 @ 12:47 am
Nofollow revisited
It’s been about four months now since Google introduced nofollow to the web. Since then it’s been adopted by every major blogging platform, as well as many other wiki, forum and CMS platforms. Now that nofollow is everywhere, it’s ti…
Trackback by IO ERROR — May 23, 2005 @ 9:05 am
Actually, my question was more along the lines of: Wh
Comment by Denis de Bernardy — May 31, 2005 @ 1:59 pm
Silly form.
My question was more along the lines of: What prevents an army of spam bots to trick bad behavior blackhole’s voting system?
Comment by Denis de Bernardy — May 31, 2005 @ 2:01 pm
Denis, if the bots are actually sending spam, then they should indeed be listed in Bad Behavior Blackhole. The system I’m building will not list an IP address until verified spam is received from that IP address by more than one blog. Once that happens, the IP address will be listed. At least, that’s the current idea. Implementing it has turned out not to be so easy…
Comment by IO ERROR — June 1, 2005 @ 6:10 am
[...] legitimate user who happens to get stuck with a dynamic IP address a spammer once used. A WordPress plugin is available which looks up addresses in Bad Behavior Blackhol [...]
Pingback by IO ERROR » Nofollow revisited — June 6, 2005 @ 10:32 am
I’ve been trying to download the Bad Behaviour Blackhole plugin but this page (http://dnsbl.ioerror.us/wordpress/) tells me to download the plugin from this page and there’s no download link.
Thanks.
Comment by Nathan — November 7, 2006 @ 9:18 pm
What I want to do on my blog, is every few hours take the oldest post and move it to the
front of the queue, all automatically. Anyone know if there is a plugin that can do this or
a simple way to set up another plugin to do this (use my own feed perhaps)?
Thanks.
Comment by Brendon — December 12, 2006 @ 9:04 pm
Will you please supply a link to where “bad behavior blackhole” could be downloaded (or an example to how to use it)?
I have a RBL-check implementet, can i just add: dnsbl.ioerror.us?
Thanks
Comment by Smith — December 19, 2006 @ 9:43 am
I have written a similar one including anonymous statistics.
If you like I can send you my ping.php script including the stats part and a structural database dump.
Comment by Quix0r — January 11, 2007 @ 3:40 pm
hi there,
is this plugins still in use and being developed? or is it now incorporated into the bad behavior 2.0.10 ?
Comment by ovizii — January 30, 2007 @ 10:32 am