Say no to bot spammers

I had hard times with all those spam bots the come and post comments on your posts, advertising stuff you do not want. Ok, initially I started to fight them by trashing the comments and adding their ip addresses in my ban list using a htaccess file like this:

satisfy any
order deny,allow
allow from all
deny from 205.209.143.66
deny from 212.76.37.174
deny from 96.31.92.173
deny from 83.238.72.106
deny from 85.222.67.34
deny from 77.236.15.226
deny from 208.188.3.9
deny from 212.235.107.140
deny from 109.160.142.48
deny from 89.28.14.35
deny from 212.235.107.140
deny from 58.33.169.109
deny from 205.209.143.66
deny from 79.174.79.122
deny from 212.235.107.140
deny from 213.0.89.6

This is the list for now but at some point I got worried about denying so many ips. So I just got the reCaptcha plugin for wordpress that does great job. No more bots. I don’t know why I didn’t added at the first point. I suggest that to you too. Really or any other captcha validation plugin you can use.

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