I’ve only been blogging at WordPress for 2 weeks and there has already been over 100 spam comments. I experienced nothing similar on Blogger. Does anybody know if there is a reason for that? WordPress is great at catching spammers, but I’m just curious.
8 responses to “Why Does WordPress Attract More Spammers Than Blogger?”
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I can see two possible reasons for that:
The first one is that wordpress is more common than others.
I mean we have blogger.com and wordpress.com were everyone can register for a blog, but additionally to that you can download the wordpress software and install it on your own webspace. So by writing programs to spam wordpress you have simply more people to spam.And the second thing is that the wordpress software is open source and blogger is not. That means you can download the entisre source code and look in it for security holes or weaknesses or something like this. You could, for example take a look at how wordpress identifies spam and compile the spam comment in a way that it won’t alert the filter.
Oh and also, sometimes people with there own webspace are lazy and don’t update to the newest version so you might find blogs were certain security holes, that might be exploited, are still open.
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Thank you, Tim, this is very interesting. Finally, somebody explained to me what “open source” means.
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There’s also the fact that the WordPress comments don’t have word-verification. That’s a big security feature of Blogger–it prevents a good portion of automatic spamming by preventing a computer from being able to interpret the word jumbles.
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I’m actually very happy that the word verification is gone. It is always such a drag. WordPress is great at catching spammers. Not a single one has slipped in so far, so I’m happy.
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Well, obviously the raison d’étre of the open source movement is not making it easier for spammers, but yeah effectively that is right.
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