DISQUS

Slevi · 2 years ago

I use the pre-approve from old commenters technique, works out fine for me. Usually I check twice a day at least for new comments so they do show up on the blog rather quickly still, after that users are free to do what they want. Along with Akismet to hold out the general spam this has resulted in not a single spam comment actually making it to the public :).

Brian Purkiss · 2 years ago

I have a small blog - so I don't have much spam.
But I use akisment - and it has caught all but one.
All other commentors need to have one approved comment.

Uh...
That's about all I have to say...
Because I don't have to deal with spam.

Good for me!

Simon · 2 years ago

My blog had almost no spam for most of its life, then all of a sudden the spam has gone through the roof. 833 spam comments, and almost all of them in the last few weeks. There is one type that was getting through akismet and was making it onto the blog until I enabled moderation for all posts with links in them. That particular spam comes in the form of a link to a random forum, a different forum each time, I assume the forums have nothing to do with it, and uses a random simple gmail address. i.e. john@gmail.com. It is always for the same post, a post I did over 2 months ago. It's not too annoying now that I have moderation enabled. But it makes you wonder what drives the idiots who make what is blatantly just annoyance factor spam. Maybe I upset someone?

Steven Snell · 2 years ago

I rely on Akismet. It catches a ton of spam comments and then I delete whatever spam gets through. I have no idea how many legit comments get deleted by Akismet because I don't have time to go through it. I've never had anyone tell me they left a comment that got deleted.

joost · 2 years ago

We use Akismet and the “Pre-approve comments from old commenters”, but that last one is giving us some problems now :( The other day somebody posted a 'legitimate' comment. I approved it and the next day this same person bombarded several posts with spam comments. Because he/she was an old commenter it got through....
Luckily it was there only a few hours because I pulled the authorization when I saw the spam, but it was still bl**dy annoying.

Madhur Kapoor · 2 years ago

I use Akismet but i dont think it is much effective . Will have to try some other alternative along with it .

Diana13 · 2 years ago

Thanks for visiting my blog.
My blog is still very young, but after a few spam, I've installed today akismet, and it caught allready 23 spam comments.

Armen · 2 years ago

Nice, brief, but useful post. I think I'll head over and try out recaptcha to help cut down the work Akismet has to do.

Thanks!

Gadgets · 2 years ago

I base my moderation decisions on Akismet's "suggestions" :D. I find it more easy to use that other solutions. And it worked really nice until now. Hope it will not disappoint me.

Matt Ellsworth · 2 years ago

we get about 100 spam comments per day on this blog alone. We have enabled a honeypot plugin (projecthoneypot.org) as well as we keep a blacklist of ips - and send them to a redirect when they try to access any site we run - that however is made by hand and not automated unfortunately.

We of course use askimet which catches a bunch - but its still annoying.

John · 1 year ago

I have the "old commenters" box checked in my options, but one commenter frequently ends up in my spam and moderation queue anyway.

My interpretation is that it means that all first-time commenters get moderated, but second/fifth/twentyfifth time commenters can still get moderated.

I'd like a way to truly pre-approve an email address so that this doesn't happen to my readers.

Fera · 1 year ago

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and I get a flood attacks ,is there any plugin to prevent flood spam ?

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