The Best Anti-Comment Spam Filter
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.
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. :)
Tags: Akismet, Comment Spam, electronic spam, Spam, Spamming
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