Avoiding Comment Spam through Subversion

This week SlingAlibi has been examining ways to clean up CommentSpam.

By default, BlogEngine.NET 1.5 does not have the heavy protection from comment spam. A handy Extension like Askismet works wonders (as does the impending upgrade); however, one way to disguise your site from spammers is to see how they find your site.

A quick examination of the Analytics for this site showed how the spammer culprits determine a site is vulnerable for spam. About 4% of the traffic came from a search for “powered by blogengine.net” – in exact quotes. This is simple enough to change, while still crediting our packaged application.

Editing the Master Page

You’ll need to edit the master page for the theme you are using. For our site, we keep it simple and use the Standard theme. You’ll find this inside the Theme directory.  Open up the site.master file and change the footer text to read something else – anything else…