Comments on: Comment Spammers Suck – We Pay the Price

By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 10:45:21 +0000

I think you should use a word box and have people type the text that appears. It is easy to use and will cut down on your stress.

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:25:37 +0000

BTW I’m getting these warnings (which aren’t fatal – they’re only warnings; imply that perhaps two of your plugins are trampling on each others’ feet) when I post a comment:

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter – headers already sent (output started at /home/users/web/b1685/ipw.writersblocklive/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/SK2/sk2_second_chance.php:2) in /home/users/web/b1685/ipw.writersblocklive/public_html/wp/wp-content/plugins/pxsmail.php on line 2

By: Mike Evangelist

Mike Evangelist — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:25:13 +0000

Hi Charles – Nice to hear from you.

I donated to SK2 the day I installed it; it was immediately obvious how well it worked.

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 16:03:12 +0000

Akismet is included in more recent versions of Wordpress, and SK2 works with it very neatly. I use SK2 and it’s a charm. Mind that you donate once you realise how much money it’s saving you (because it’s saving you huge amounts of time, and giving you peace of mind); and keep an eye on the “General” tab, since that’s where announcements pop up.

In short, ignore those advising Akismet. SK2 does it all, and better.

By: sammy

sammy — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:54:17 +0000

i dont know wordpress, but i also use Badbehavior, which is also available for wordpress:
http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/bad-behavior-download/

there is also
http://blog.roundtripsolutions.com/2005/12/10/121/wordpress-comment-antispam/

greetings
sammy

By: Josue Salazar

Josue Salazar — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:59:48 +0000

Mike, as some commenters already said, try Akismet.

By: josh

josh — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:35:01 +0000

I’ve been using SpamKarma for about a year now, and it’s been great. The occaisional spam gets through, but the amount that gets through is nothing compared to what I used to get.

By: Brett Brooks

Brett Brooks — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:16:14 +0000

Hi Mike,

I use wordpress with SpamKarma and love it. As yet i havnt found a better solution. Spam Karma automates a lot of the process and does a really good job of picking out the real comments and the spam ones

Love your blog by the way.

cheers

By: Mike Evangelist

Mike Evangelist — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:27:07 +0000

onestep – I decided to try the Google ads again, after several people told me they didn’t mind them.

By: onestep

onestep — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:21:17 +0000

I thought you stopped google ads.. but I swear I saw some right above the comments.. oh well. Anyway, I hope the Spam filters work for you. It was so bad on my site, I finally decided to turn off comments for good. It makes the site less interactive, but people complained about using ‘Typekey’ so I just said forget it for now.