The Best Anti-Comment Spam Filter

July 5, 2006 · Filed Under Uncategorized 
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With a few blogs to maintain, finally I’ve given up on deleting comment spam manually. I’ve been receiving approximately 100 comment spam per day for the past few months. I’’ve just installed the Akismet plugins for the first time. I’ll give a report after a day or two on Akismet performance and how good is it an catching spams.

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Unlike Blogger.com, Wordpress don’t have the Captcha feature installed by default. I hope that future Wordpress would have this feature come by default, chances are it won’t happen. One of the main reason being is that Wordpress is an Automattic production and so is Akismet. If Word verification is installed by default, Akismet won’t be making any money at all from Wordpress.

According to Wikipedia, Spam is a canned meat product made by the Hormel Foods Corporation in (among other places) Austin, Minnesota, USA (aka Spam Town USA). Well, Spam is a food, but how in the world did the word Spam got associated with electronic flooding? Wikipedia has an interesting article on the origin of the name for electronic spam.

As spammers continue to advance their tools and try to attack your business blog from new angles, your diligence will be required. Comment spam is a fact of life if you have a blog.

No plugins is 100% accurate in filtering spams, except for one. Yes, you heard me saying it loud and clear. There is one way of achieving 100% accuracy. No plugins required, simply disable comment feature. Problem solve. :)

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  1. Andy Skelton

    July 5th, 2006
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    I hope that future Wordpress would have this feature come by default, chances are it won’t happen. One of the main reason being is that Wordpress is an Automattic production and so is Akismet.

    Word verification is unwanted in core WordPress because it is a hassle, it shuts out many people from commenting, there are no person-friendly and machine-proof generators available, and a great deal of today’s spam is entered manually anyway. In fact, plugins are better able to deal with the rapid evolution of spam because they can be updated more often than WP core. The decision to leave word verification in the domain of plugins was driven by love for users, not money. :-)

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