Spam , Spam , Spam
By Madhur Kapoor on Nov 28, 2006 in Blogging, Wordpress
The problem of Spam is nowdays almost faced by all the bloggers . Some receive around 1000 spam comments everyday . Luckily we have many ways to tackle the situation . Some may be user friendly or some may not . I have been using Akismet since i stated blogging and to be honest it is doing a good job for me . I receive around 30-50 spam comments daily and it manages to keep them out . But still , sometimes one or two spam makes there way in . That is mostly because of the way that spam is written . Honestly i have seen many changes in the spam style.
Earlier i used to get spam having links to pornographics sites , casions etc or sometimes even just some non meaningful text . But lately i have seen a wide diversion in the spam style . Including those which i just mentiones , i receive spam which have text like ” Very Nice Blog ” , “Couldnt have said it better myself ” , “You have written well ” etc with some bad links and sometimes the name and link appear to be genuine . And sometimes these comments find there way . Now there are a lot of otherways to handle like making use of techniques such as ’image verification’ or recently i have noticed a sort of a mathematical technique which asks a user to answer simple questions such as ” what is 10 + 2 ” before the can post there comment . Now such things are very useful but one question still haunts me is that ” Will a user like it or not ? ” . I mean sometimes i also get frustated at sites which have these type of protection . But that does not stop me from leaving a comment , only a little bit of frustation or ‘what the heck ‘ .. Now the way as things are looking , i dont know whether i will be forced to use this or not .. but for now ….thanks to AKISMET
Blogger Beta has much less spam…It uses a new technique which does not allow an external form to spoof the original one..
Manas | Nov 28, 2006 | Reply
But akismet catch some time genuine posts also
Ashok | Nov 28, 2006 | Reply
You can try the math plugin if Askimet bothers you by mistakes.
Harsh J | Nov 28, 2006 | Reply
use capcha or math spam plugin. it will reduce the spams a lot.
CypherHackz | Nov 28, 2006 | Reply
The main problem with Akismet or S2K is that it catches good comments as spam and sometimes it become to verify each on of them… So I’ve used Captcha
Read this
Thilak | Nov 28, 2006 | Reply
Yeah sometimes Akismet does catch genuine comments also .
Madhur Kapoor | Nov 28, 2006 | Reply
I use Spam karma 2 and till now I have not had any issues with it as far as I am concerned I am quite contended with Spam karma2’s performance.
Shivaranjan | Nov 29, 2006 | Reply
I use the Math plugin to prevent the spammers from posting comments,i also use Askimet and with it, SpamKarma.
These three together are working miracles.
carol | Nov 29, 2006 | Reply
I forgot to ask you to update my ctrinity link to carolsvault.com link.
carol | Nov 29, 2006 | Reply
@Carol
Updated your link .
Madhur Kapoor | Nov 29, 2006 | Reply
Hi Madhur,
Take a look at My Guide
Ajay | Nov 30, 2006 | Reply
I prefer using math spam plugin, captcha is irritating.
Lovedeep Wadhwa | Dec 8, 2006 | Reply
Thanks Madhur.
For some reason i keep falling into your spam.
carol | Dec 8, 2006 | Reply
WordPress Trackback Spam!!!
I have installed plugins that prevent comment spams, but this won't prevent trackback to be blocked. I've been spam by many
MFA websites that most probably is from the same network with trackback, but they are not linking me on their website. May I
know how do they do it and how do I stop it? Without disabling trackback?
Thanks, and I'm using WordPress.
Jimmy | Dec 9, 2006 | Reply
@Carol
Seems like Akismet has gone haywire.
@Jimmy
Will try to find out …
Madhur Kapoor | Dec 9, 2006 | Reply
I use textpattern and for all the time that’s past, I just recieved one comment which was spam. I think it’s because textpattern has the preview before it actually alows you to submit the comment.
Whatever someone does, spammers will always find a way around.
And for the record I hate boxes where I have to look at a twisty image and enter the alphabets, etc.
Angad | Dec 13, 2006 | Reply