Comments on: Livefyre Torched As Spam – Are You Next?

By: nannasin smith

nannasin smith — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 07:06:00 +0000

those comments go straight into a spam folder. LM2596

By: Travis Summerlin

Travis Summerlin — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:39:00 +0000

Techcrunch is now using livefyre so…

By: Ike Pigott

Ike Pigott — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:37:00 +0000

Hi Bruno…

There are many different ways to attack the issue of comment spam. I would recommend a two-step solution involving free WordPress plugins.

First, activate Akismet (it should have come with your WordPress basic install.) You’ll need to configure it, and that’s a fairly easy process. What Akismet does is wash your incoming comments through a directory that millions of other people use. Odds are, the person spamming your site has spammed others with the exact same (or similar) message. Akismet essentially crowd-sources spam declarations, and those comments go straight into a spam folder.

The second plugin is called Bad Behavior. Most of the spam traffic you get is from automated scripts (called ‘bots), that try to go straight into your database without ever landing on your page. Bad Behavior recognizes a lot of the tricks spammers use when they automate, and simply rejects those HTTP requests before they even hit your server.

As for third-party comment systems, I have heard wonderful things about Livefyre, and of course Social Media Explorer uses Disqus. You might also look at Echo and IntenseDebate.

Anyone else have recommendations for Bruno?

By: Bruno Babic

Bruno Babic — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 03:09:00 +0000

Hi Ike, I am glad that I have found your blog because I have been getting lots of spammers’ comments on my blog posts and would therefore like to ask you what I could do in order to prevent that from happening.
By the way, my site is actually a Word Press blog and wanted to ask you whether I have to install a specific comment managemant software or plug-in in order to block these spammers.
Anyway, to make a little bit of fun of this, I might sell some advertising space to some of these spammers because funnily enough I have lately realized that most of their businesses relate to the luxury playboy lifestyle that I am trying to promote on my blog

In advance thank you very much for your kind help and assistance.

Bruno Babic

By: Tasha W

Tasha W — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:26:00 +0000

Ah OK thanks! One more question… when I respond to a comment after installing Livefyre, does that person get notified that I responded through email or social media, however they commented from?… or do they need to have a Livefyre account to be able to get notifications that I commented back to them?

By: Ike Pigott

Ike Pigott — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:15:00 +0000

Not anymore.

The comment sections were always fine — it was the shortlinks that were Tweeted out and posted to Facebook that were not resolving, and bringing in the traffic to the posts.

As of Friday evening, that has been resolved.

Fyre away!

By: Tasha W

Tasha W — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:04:00 +0000

So if I use LiveFyre on my blog. I’m going to have issues with URLs being blocked if the commenter uses a custom URL shortner? Sad I was thinking of switching to Livefyre from Intense Debate

By: Jenna Langer

Jenna Langer — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:06:00 +0000

We’ve spoken with them and the links should now be working! Check out the link to see our trustworthy rating: http://d.pr/i/lciI

By: Ike Pigott

Ike Pigott — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:21:00 +0000

Excellent — let me know if you have better luck with them.

By: Jenna Langer

Jenna Langer — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:20:00 +0000

Hi Ike, we haven’t heard of this before and reached out to BrightCloud as soon as we saw this article. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

By: Ike Pigott

Ike Pigott — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:18:00 +0000

We’d like that too.

Have you heard about this before? Have you approached Brightcloud in the past?