Comments on: I’ve Been Saved…from Comment Spam

By: Digit-8

Digit-8 — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:14:12 +0000

I use akismet it helps

By: Brian Cook

Brian Cook — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:50:00 +0000

Akismet is definitely awesome. However, it’s amazing how much of the spam it catches follows exactly the same pattern (lots of drug names and adult links peppering a random assortment of words). I wonder how well the plugin would fare against smarter comment spammers.

By: Gustavo

Gustavo — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:41:17 +0000

well, without Akismet we wouldn’t be able to manage the huge amount of spammers in the comments…so thanks to the guys who created this amazing plug-in!

By: Bommerang Barb

Bommerang Barb — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:32:24 +0000

I’m a newbie and have akismet installed on my site. It has already caught a lot of spam comments.

By: lei

lei — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:00:47 +0000

Comments are really important. It gives you feedback of your work. But if spam is invading your blog its bad because you will not get anything from it. At the same time its just a junk

By: Dawud Miracle

Dawud Miracle — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 14:02:06 +0000

Simon, I used to use a captcha plugin. Then I had a nice conversation around spam protect with Lorelle, in which she suggested they're too easy to circumvent. So now I use the trifecta of Akismet, Bad Behavior and Spam Karma2 and everything's been great.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:03:32 +0000

I’d recommend the protectwebform captcha plugin. It’s really ingenious in that it only shows a capctha challenge to browsers with Javascript disabled, which is almost every spam bot. The vast majority of legitimate commentators will have Javascript enabled, so they can just sail through. I used to get 1000+ spam comments a day, Akismet caught most but not all. Since installing the plugin only one comment has made it into Akismet and none onto the site itself. I couldn’t recommend it highly enough.

By: Dawud Miracle

Dawud Miracle — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:05:09 +0000

Guide Study,
It does work great. And, I’m seeing the benefit of using other spam plugins as well.

By: Guide Study

Guide Study — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:01:16 +0000

I also use Akismet, the plugin is awesome. I would seriously pay a lot for the kind of service they offer.

By: Dawud Miracle

Dawud Miracle — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:29:34 +0000

Single Grain,

I only use Akismet at this point. I’ve considered adding Bad Behavior and/or Spam Karma2, but haven’t bothered yet. I’m pretty happy with my spam protection at this point.

By: Single Grain

Single Grain — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:25:15 +0000

Akismat saves me so much time a day. It does a fairly good job on catching spam although it puts real comments into spam at least a few times a day but it guess its the price i have to pay not to get spammed. Great post Dawud.

By: Dawud Miracle

Dawud Miracle — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:46:36 +0000

Blog Bloke

It seems a fine balance between protecting oneself from those reched spammers while keeping your site easily accessible to the good guys.

Thanks for your comment, Bloke. Sorry you felt like I might delete you. No way. I’m a fan.

By: Blog Bloke

Blog Bloke — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:07:22 +0000

Yes, but in your zeal to destroy spam be sure to use a method that doesn’t make your readers jump through too many hoops either. Otherwise you also run the risk of turning off legitimate commenters (and readers).

BTW, I would have left a comment earlier but I was afraid you might delete me.

Cheers!

…BB

By: Dawud Miracle

Dawud Miracle — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:48:15 +0000

Yeah, me either. I still wonder how the folks spammers work for get paid. They must because the frequency of spam continues to grow. If it wasn’t profitable, it wouldn’t be happening.

By: Anthony Baggett

Anthony Baggett — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:30:16 +0000

I just yesterday posted on the spam problem with MyBlogLog myself. I HATE spam with a passion and it’s pretty much why I avoid sites like MySpace.com. I can’t imagine anyone actually responding to spam by purchasing a product.