Comments on: Don’t Be A Comment Spammer

By: iDope

iDope — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:56:29 +0000

Stephane,
Its all a matter of volume. I dont want to spend every minute of my day checking for spam. Akismet works okay for me but lets through couple of spam frequently (especially the ones without links). And I hate captchas, I will never put one on my blog. So I wrote a plugin to block comment spam without resorting to captchas called WP Captcha-Free (Sorry for the shameless plug, I hope you dont take this as comment spam ;) ). It uses a combination of time based hash and ajax to block spam (or atleast ensure the commenter was human and not a bot). I use it myself of both my blogs and now get zero spam from an earlier 40+ per day. This doesn’t replace Akismet but does complement it very well. You can check it out at http://wordpresssupplies.com/wordpress-plugins/captcha-free/

By: Hock

Hock — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:37:28 +0000

Email notifications can get out of hand once your blog popularity grows and more people start commenting.

By: Stephane

Stephane — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:34:57 +0000

I get email notifications for every comments on my blogs so I can usually react pretty quickly. On another hand, I could moderate all comments…

By: Hock

Hock — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:14:14 +0000

Thomas, Akismet catches most of the spam but sometimes valid comments get in there too. I guess I could also let my readers know that posting those types of comments will get them banned.

By: Thomas Sinfield

Thomas Sinfield — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:57:59 +0000

It’s so true. I hate it so much, cause I get my fair share of comment spam as well. I currently have a guy that says ‘Good post..thanks for sharing’ on every new post I make.

I am just going to reject them from now on!