100000 + and counting

Author: Madhur Kapoor

24 Feb

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.

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16 Responses for "100000 + and counting"

Shashank February 24th, 2008 at 8:00 pm 1
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
Dj Flush February 24th, 2008 at 8:24 pm 2
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
TechPavan February 24th, 2008 at 11:26 pm 3
Hope someone will definitely get you a very good plugin. After you get that, please post an article on that… everyone wants that…
Binny V A February 25th, 2008 at 3:51 am 4
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.
ashwin February 25th, 2008 at 5:59 am 5
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.
Dexter | Techathand.net February 25th, 2008 at 7:20 am 6
I thought it is a count of your RSS Feeds .. I imidiately rush to your site from Google reader
Madhur Kapoor February 25th, 2008 at 8:53 am 7
@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 .
Rakshit February 25th, 2008 at 8:54 am 8
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.
Nirmal February 25th, 2008 at 10:00 am 9
Mine is 65k in 6 months time. Nowadays it has increased.
Wayne Liew February 25th, 2008 at 10:21 am 10
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.
DJ February 25th, 2008 at 10:21 am 11
Akismet always does the job for me.
Ram February 25th, 2008 at 11:39 am 12
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
Madhur Kapoor February 25th, 2008 at 5:57 pm 13
@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 .
Edward February 27th, 2008 at 5:32 am 14
100000+? Those spammers sure have a lot of dedication don’t they?
Ashfame February 27th, 2008 at 6:54 am 15
At first sight, I thought it to be your pageviews. lol
Kishore March 1st, 2008 at 11:17 am 16
Madhur, are you using the latest version, there was an upgrade recently. I am also using only akismet and it works fine for me