Comments on: Don’t Just Depend on Akismet

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By: Neto Cury

Neto Cury — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:50:59 +0000

I agree when it says “Don’t Just Depend on Akismet”. In mine blog, I installed a simple system of “human confirmation” (http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/04/02/comment-policy-wordpress-plugin/) being for the commentaries, beyond using akismet. The Spam counting remains since then in ZERO in Akismet.
Simple however ingenious!

By: Staska

Staska — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:56:06 +0000

Well I use Math Comment Spam Protection Plugin on some of my blogs. (http://sw-guide.de/wordpress/math-comment-spam-protection-plugin/ )

Very simple, but works great.

By: TDH

TDH — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 06:36:48 +0000

David,
I usually install both Akismet and Spam Karma 2 to my blogs. It’s a great combination and thus far it has gotten all comment spam. It is, however, not as reliable as trackback spam and I intend to try out Bad Behavior when appropriate.

LiewCF,
That sounds, well, weird. Do you mean that visitors can’t read the blog, or their comments get stuck in Spam Karma 2? If the latter then yes, that can happen depending on how severely you treat your spam (there are several levels) but I haven’t seen it yet, and I checked my caught spam very thoroughly during the first six months. We’re talking thousands of caught spam each week here so I didn’t want to just take the functionality for granted.

By: war59312

war59312 — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 05:05:48 +0000

Well in my case that does not seem to be a major issue. Only gotten a few emails about it in the past view months. And most of the time it was because they had spyware installed on their PC and did not even know it.

By: LiewCF

LiewCF — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:40:43 +0000

I still stick with Akismet. I used Bad Behavior and Spam Karma before, they are great but, too great. It happened that some of the good visitors or websites cannot access by blog because blocked by Bad Behavior/Spam Karma.

By: David

David — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:26:30 +0000

Wow… Go you war59312.

Seems like everyone that has commented so far either used to use, or uses more than one anti-spam tool. Good to know. Maybe I should poll the BloggingPro readership?

By: war59312

war59312 — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:08:52 +0000

I use all three. That is Bad Behavior, Akismet, and Spam Karma 2. I also disable comments after two weeks and disable pings after 7 days. This reduces spam big time. In fact I have not gotten a spam in over a month. Not a single one has gotten though.

By: EAS

EAS — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:11:44 +0000

Try Spam Karma 2. It works great for me.

I moved to Wordpress from Movable Type a year or so ago because I was sick of the poor tools I had available for dealing with spam on MT. I started out with Spam Karma 2 and Bad Behavior and was completely happy.

When Wordpress 2.0 came out, I decided to avoid Askismet, because I knew SpamKarma2 worked, and I didn’t know if the two played well together. I also decided to ditch Bad Behavior because I’d heard rumors of it causing false positives.

It didn’t seem to make much difference, even now, with spam volumes up dramatically in recent weeks, no spam gets through. False positives are rare too.

By: David

David — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:33:03 +0000

Thanks Robert, I appreciate the opinion, and the quick stats. Also glad to hear you are doubling up to make sure you don’t need to deal with spam appearing on your blog. Kudos to you.