100000 + and counting
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
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
Hope someone will definitely get you a very good plugin. After you get that, please post an article on that… everyone wants that…
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.
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.
I thought it is a count of your RSS Feeds
.. I imidiately rush to your site from Google reader
@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 .
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.
Mine is 65k in 6 months time. Nowadays it has increased.
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.