Comments on: How do you deal with comment spam? http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/20/how-do-you-deal-with-comment-spam/ Utterly random, incoherent and disjointed rants and ramblings... Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:42:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Stephane http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/20/how-do-you-deal-with-comment-spam/#comment-4916 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:14:16 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/20/how-do-you-deal-with-comment-spam/#comment-4916 great post ! I don't use anything but Akismet, which is fine for me ... Very few spams get away with it, and I don't really mind if a legit comment occasionnaly get flushed in the middle of 200 spams, mostly because I get so few comments on my blog that this makes it sort of unlikely to happen. Makes me think that it might be because I have like 3 readers all in all :-D great post !

I don’t use anything but Akismet, which is fine for me … Very few spams get away with it, and I don’t really mind if a legit comment occasionnaly get flushed in the middle of 200 spams, mostly because I get so few comments on my blog that this makes it sort of unlikely to happen.

Makes me think that it might be because I have like 3 readers all in all -D

]]> by: Luke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/20/how-do-you-deal-with-comment-spam/#comment-4914 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:47:06 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/20/how-do-you-deal-with-comment-spam/#comment-4914 Peter - I really like your CAPTCHA. It's simple yet effective. The only improvement would be to put a textbox in the control panel section where you could type in your CAPTCHA words without the need to go to the code. If I have few free moments I will see if I could hack this up. If I get it working I will send a patch your way. Mark - for some reason CAPTCHA doesn't seem to deter my readers. Go figure. Without bad behavior my Akismet would get few hundred posts in the queue each day. With bad behavior, but no CAPTCHA I get 30-40 per day. With CAPTCHA, Bad Behavior and Akismet working together I get 0-5 spams in the Akismet queue per week. Peter - I really like your CAPTCHA. It’s simple yet effective. The only improvement would be to put a textbox in the control panel section where you could type in your CAPTCHA words without the need to go to the code.

If I have few free moments I will see if I could hack this up. If I get it working I will send a patch your way.

Mark - for some reason CAPTCHA doesn’t seem to deter my readers. Go figure. Without bad behavior my Akismet would get few hundred posts in the queue each day. With bad behavior, but no CAPTCHA I get 30-40 per day.

With CAPTCHA, Bad Behavior and Akismet working together I get 0-5 spams in the Akismet queue per week.

]]> by: Mark Cahill http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/20/how-do-you-deal-with-comment-spam/#comment-4913 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:37:34 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/20/how-do-you-deal-with-comment-spam/#comment-4913 I tried the capcha route and I found my comments dried up. I am using bad-behavior, as well as Akismet and it generally stops them cold, but I do need to manually delete the drek from the Akismet log, which gets a couple hundred a day. Have you seen the pitch that the Xrumer people use for their spamming software? "Site owners set up comment categories to encourage you to post your links." What rubbish! Great post! I tried the capcha route and I found my comments dried up. I am using bad-behavior, as well as Akismet and it generally stops them cold, but I do need to manually delete the drek from the Akismet log, which gets a couple hundred a day.

Have you seen the pitch that the Xrumer people use for their spamming software? “Site owners set up comment categories to encourage you to post your links.” What rubbish!

Great post!

]]> by: Vario Creative Blog » Wordpress Tricks http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/20/how-do-you-deal-with-comment-spam/#comment-4912 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:31:05 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/20/how-do-you-deal-with-comment-spam/#comment-4912 [...] How Do You Deal with Comment Spam? - from Terminally Incoherent [...] […] How Do You Deal with Comment Spam? - from Terminally Incoherent […]

]]> by: Peter http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/20/how-do-you-deal-with-comment-spam/#comment-4911 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:56:27 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/06/20/how-do-you-deal-with-comment-spam/#comment-4911 Thanks for the mention. I'd be interested to see how easy it is to adapt my CAPTCHA plugin for the other blogging engines, or whether a similar one already exists... Thanks for the mention. I’d be interested to see how easy it is to adapt my CAPTCHA plugin for the other blogging engines, or whether a similar one already exists…

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