100000 + and counting
By Madhur Kapoor on Feb 24, 2008 in Blogging
The title is sure to confuse you but this is the amount of spam I have received in the past year. Akismet is the only spam comment plugin I am using on this blog right now. In the beginning it worked well but for the last few weeks, i have noticed many spam comments bypassing akismet and finding there way in the comments section.
If it happened rarely, I could have ignored it but it is happening everyday and 3-5 spam always finds a way in my blog. Sometimes, even legitimate comments get treated as spam and when you receive around 1000 comments daily, it becomes difficult to hunt for them. Now I have been thinking about adding some other plugin apart from Akismet to fight and stop spam in my blog.
Do suggest me some plugin which your using ? What other methods are you using to fight spam on your blog ? Your help will be greatly appreciated.
IMO there is no better spam filter than Akismet… there’s one more( defensio i think) but then you will later come back to Akismet
Shashank | Feb 24, 2008 | Reply
OMG 100000 is a lot
I have managed to fight a spam of 50,000 in 1 year
Get this plugin
http://tantannoodles.com/toolkit/spam-filter/
and forget that SPAM even ever existed
Dj Flush | Feb 24, 2008 | Reply
Hope someone will definitely get you a very good plugin. After you get that, please post an article on that… everyone wants that…
TechPavan | Feb 24, 2008 | Reply
I use just Akismet - its good but a few spam comments are still coming through. It is an annoyance - but still not a big problem for me. You should write a post if you get a better plugin - that way, I can solve my annoyance before it becomes a problem.
Binny V A | Feb 25, 2008 | Reply
100k is a lot of spam comments for a year. From my exp. Akismet is the best. Whatever you might do some comments will be sneaked through.
ashwin | Feb 25, 2008 | Reply
I thought it is a count of your RSS Feeds
.. I imidiately rush to your site from Google reader
Dexter | Techathand.net | Feb 25, 2008 | Reply
@Shashank
I used to think so but many spam are sneaking through
@Dj
Thanks, I will definately try it
@Techpavan , Binny
I will definately write a post if i find something worthwile.
@ashwinr
You may be right
@Dexter
Lol man, there is a long way to go before achieving that .
Madhur Kapoor | Feb 25, 2008 | Reply
What a huge number????
Better do something quickly to get rid of this.
Spam karma2 (SK2) and Bad Behavior are real good ones. Although, I have never tried them but I have heard lots of praises for them.
Rakshit | Feb 25, 2008 | Reply
Mine is 65k in 6 months time. Nowadays it has increased.
Nirmal | Feb 25, 2008 | Reply
100,000 is certainly a huge amount of spam. My Akismet is reporting about 8,000 of spams. How many spams on average do you get daily? I get about 40 but I guess mine will surely be easier to manage compared to yours.
Wayne Liew | Feb 25, 2008 | Reply
Akismet always does the job for me.
DJ | Feb 25, 2008 | Reply
That is a lot of spam dude. The best way to manage is to get a captcha plugin, but i don’t recommend or use it myself
Ram | Feb 25, 2008 | Reply
@Nirmal
It has certainly increased in the last few months
@Wayne
Around 800-1000 daily.
@Dj
I wish i could say that
@Ram
Even i hate Captchas . I am thinking of incorporating Math Spam plugin .
Madhur Kapoor | Feb 25, 2008 | Reply
100000+? Those spammers sure have a lot of dedication don’t they?
Edward | Feb 27, 2008 | Reply
At first sight, I thought it to be your pageviews. lol
Ashfame | Feb 27, 2008 | Reply
Madhur, are you using the latest version, there was an upgrade recently. I am also using only akismet and it works fine for me
Kishore | Mar 1, 2008 | Reply