got sick of my comment spam last night, so finally got around to adding in Spam Karma 2. It was a good idea – it has caught over 2000 spam since then.
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It’s a very easy install – took me about five minutes. Get it here
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10 responses to “Spam Karma rocks.”
oh, thanks for that, will have to wait until I get home (to another 1000+ spam comments I expect!) but will do it asap then 🙂
Oh mna, they must love you! Thousands?? I can say we have SK2 set at homeschooljournal and my blog and it seems to be doing a fine job. I can just ignore it even. It’ll clean itself out too, which I really like.
“Total Spam Caught: 4080 (average karma: -218.89)”
Can’t get the automatically insert numbers into footer thing to work – I have a non standard template.
So far I’ve had to moderate 24 comments, all of which were spam, and it’s let through none accidentally. As far as I can see it hasn’t caught any non spam, though to be honest, it’s quite difficult to check that in these numbers.
I noticed that our has caught spam that went through into the database that we never saw in moderation. You know, I really thought that was stupid of the software. If it knew for sure it was spam, why keep it around? At least this plugin will purge it.
what, do you run it on existing comments? How do you do that then?
Andrea – WordPress keeps the spam in the database so it can be used to help spam-filtering software like Akismet “learn”.
Jax – on the “approved comments” and “recent spam harvest” tabs, there’s an option to run selected spam through all or some of the SK filters.
I noticed that a lot of my comment-spam was on a small number of older posts, so I added the Auto-Close Comments plugin, which allows me to close comments after a selected length of time. With no comments permitted on older posts, the number of comment spams fell dramatically.
I have problems when I installed SK2 on our WP2 install – presumably something about our setup I guess ?? Anyway, Aksimet seems to work ok here nowadays. someones been busy though, it’s spam counted seems to ahev jumpred a couple of 1000 in a few days.
I don’t like akismet for a lot of reasons, and was really happy to find SK had upgraded as I didn’t get on with version 1 at all. I suspect that the spam bots are trying to beat akismet and that is what our problem is. That’s a pretty much unfounded theory though, just a hunch really. 🙂
i don’t think anything has found its way past our akismet though
it’s not the finding its way past that worries me, it’s the getting stuck in there and not being able to find to find it that worries me. Or has the interface improved?