Comments on: More and More SPAM

By: vanlandw

vanlandw — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:22:05 +0000

I will look into Spam Karma. I did want to stay away from captchas because I do want to promote commenting on my site and those i think just piss people off. I personally don’t mind blowing out a few spam messages but the vulgar ones are just tacky. Akismet is working out again I think when fooling around with my site it got disabled somehow thus some spams got though.

By: JJT

JJT — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:06:23 +0000

I had a problem with Akismet not catching everything, so I implemented SpamKarma2 and Akismet on my blog. Except for the occasional item that is allowed through, I have been pretty spam-free on my blog.

By: vanlandw

vanlandw — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:23:10 +0000

I think I fixed the problem. I think my akismet got disabled. Also I upgraded WP and made a few changes to my comment settings and hopefully this matter is CLOSED…

thanks for the suggestions everobody :-*

By: Megan

Megan — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 17:47:54 +0000

Russ, I agree 176%. tee-frickin-hee

By: bun

bun — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 16:37:08 +0000

vanlandw, you apologizing about vulgarity is about the funniest thing i’ve ever read. brb.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 07:43:23 +0000

I would recommend staying away from captchas, because they are a pain in the ass. I think what I do is require email, akismet, and bad behavior enabled plus a set of predefined “spam words” I also implement a three strikes policy in there, also, I put any comments with a link in order moderation (if they pass the above tests).

It works pretty well, no spam gets through, and about 10 a year get into the moderation queue.

By: cosgrovec

cosgrovec — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:19:05 +0000

I’ve been using a plugin called SecureImage, located here: http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/SecureImage, for about a year now. Since installing, I have not had one spam message get through. It took a little while to setup but has been worth it.

Take a gander at my comment area to see an example.