wow, at the risk of worsening your already crappy mood,

1. bomb brazil and russia
2. firebomb spammers individually

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Not sure what you are after -- you want an absolute solution to referer spam? Dont have a web site. Other answers that might apply:

http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=3764
http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=4876
http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=4512

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this is topic'd as a feature request, its not one, im moving this.

I was being a bit direct in my question, knowing darn well that your answer is (unfortunately) the truth :) ...

But seriously -- I really don't care AT ALL about the stats that these abusers are triggering on my site. All I wanted was a nice blog, and now I have to manage the spam hits on a VERY regular basis.

Are the stats, including all spam, actually helping anyone? I doubt it. They're not good stats, as they are littered and overrun with garbage.

Why are they there? They really are useless. The idea of a blog is to ... uhm, I don't know ... BLOG! I spend more time managing spam than I actually do blogging on my own site (seriously)

Really? And that's good why? :>

nope, the stats are uselsss, remove them, I would, and did. trouble is the spammers dont know the difference.

I am pleased you took my response lightheartedly, honest.

Install kwa's (really ioerror's) bad behavior and fix up your htaccess using some of the rules in that one thread i posted that has my name in the topic. Your spam load will decrease dramatically.

sorry - you lost me :oops: ... i really don't understand what you just said. is "bad behavior" the name of a hack or something? if so, is it easy to find this somewhere? i ran a search for posts with your name in the subject, but the forums returned just too many posts (which didn't have your name) :). sorry -- can you clarify? perhaps some links in reference to what you mentioned?

i'm heading back into the corner to continue banging my head against the wall now 8|

BTW: i too am glad that you've taken my comments as tongue-in-cheek. i totally understand the nature of open source software, as i run the forums for phpWebSite (phpwsforums.com).

i was a bit taken by the huge amount of spam referrals that b2evolution brought to me. if i didn't own my hosting services, i would be getting rooked out of a ton of money for bandwidth right now. i'm sure there are users who are "paying" the price (literally) for these spam referral hoodlums.

good job.

thanks
--kevin

whoo wrote:

Not sure what you are after -- you want an absolute solution to referer spam? Dont have a web site. Other answers that might apply:

http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=3764
http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=4876
http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=4512

one of those is bad behavior, a port of the wordpress plugin by the same name. Its THE very best solution thus far on these forums for combatting spam, ioerror (the original coder) did a great job, and in fact the original for wordpress was just updated today.

One of those is my antispam .htaccess thread-- like ioerror, I like to get rid of the spam before it hits the blog or my logs. The other one is issaac's .htaccess thread (I think)

In addition to whoo's recommended threads, have a look there:

[url=http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=5616]Useless spam list[/url][/list:u]

you linked to THIS thread, kwa

whoo wrote:

you linked to THIS thread, kwa

Sorry, it's fixed. I won't post anything without having slept the night before anymore.