I’ve had lots (and I mean lots) of Spam comments lately. Akismet has nabbed most of them, but a few have gotten through. And I keep having to moderate those snagged by Akismet.
Tempted to try another, additional level of Spam protection.
I’ve had lots (and I mean lots) of Spam comments lately. Akismet has nabbed most of them, but a few have gotten through. And I keep having to moderate those snagged by Akismet.
Tempted to try another, additional level of Spam protection.
Test comment with all stuff installed.
27 minutes after the fact.
Hmm, I hope this comment makes it through the filter.
28 minutes after the fact.
Hmm, I hope this comment makes it through the filter.
Apparently, SpamForceField is a little too aggressive. It is blocking even my comments, and I am logged in.
29 minutes after the fact.
I know. Blog spam is outrageous. I don’t personally use Akismet. I’ve actually been put in the black list multiple times and Matt and co. have to take me out. They know me. I’m not a spammer; I have poor social skills and may inadvertently come off as obnoxious, but I don’t spam.
I haven’t had my blog for very long, only about a year and a half. At first, it seemed that Bad Behavior was keeping spambots out, but then I started to get spam messages in moderation (only a couple weren’t sent to moderation). So, I installed a math plugin and I haven’t gotten any spam since (I hope that doesn’t dissuade valid commenters from commenting, but at least it’s more accessible than CAPTCHA).
I don’t like Akismet on principle. On many principles, actually. I refuse to use it on my blog and I get mildly angry when people tout it as a be-all solution. In my opinion, the best anti-spam solution is probably what Pivot uses: user-defined questions that are displayed randomly. For spam bots to overcome them, they’d have to actually understand these unique questions. And making questions that are unique to your blog’s purpose (e.g. programming questions) would without doubt make it even more effective.
Just my two cents.
4 days, 17 hours after the fact.
fully sick dol ma
2 weeks, 3 days after the fact.