Comments on: Some Comment Spam is So Odd It’s Amost Amusing

By: Janni

Janni — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:38:10 +0000

Comments that are off-topic and blatant ads are annoying. Most comment spam is self serving claptrap that needs to be deleted, and doing so is just the cost of doing business in the blogosphere.

By: eastleigh

eastleigh — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:38:23 +0000

Caught my eye ” thinking home business” more people teaching themselves computer skills especially silver surfers. There’s hope for us yet.

By: iDope

iDope — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:47:27 +0000

Thanks! If you try it, let me know what you think.

By: Des Walsh

Des Walsh — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:15:04 +0000

Thanks iDope for sharing that. I don’t have a problem with a bit of shameless self-promotion, especially when it’s on topic and adding value, as your comment is.

By: iDope

iDope — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:04:30 +0000

Its all a matter of volume. You could be a human spam filter but I really don’t want to spend every minute of my day checking for spam. Akismet works okay for me but lets through couple of spam frequently (especially the ones without links). And I hate captchas, I will never put one on my blog. So I wrote a plugin to block comment spam without resorting to captchas called WP Captcha-Free (Sorry for the shameless plug, I hope you dont take this as comment spam ). It uses a combination of time based hash and ajax to block spam (or atleast ensure the commenter was human and not a bot). I use it myself of both my blogs and now get zero spam from an earlier 40+ per day. This doesn’t replace Akismet but does complement it very well. You can check it out at http://wordpresssupplies.com/wordpress-plugins/captcha-free/