Comments on: The Attack of the Spam-Bots from Hell http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/01/30/the-attack-of-the-spam-bots-from-hell/ Helping you learn more and do more with WordPress Thu, 23 May 2013 16:07:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: WordPress Anniversary: Comment Spam Lessons « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/01/30/the-attack-of-the-spam-bots-from-hell/#comment-989575 Sun, 12 May 2013 05:58:34 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/01/30/the-attack-of-the-spam-bots-from-hell/#comment-989575 […] The Attack of the Spam-Bots from Hell […]

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]]> By: Milan http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/01/30/the-attack-of-the-spam-bots-from-hell/#comment-126703 Fri, 29 Dec 2006 21:09:00 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/01/30/the-attack-of-the-spam-bots-from-hell/#comment-126703 I am having a similar experience. Adding the Akismet plugin for SK2 helps.

One odd thing, the “spams caught” number no longer goes up. Other than that, everything seems to work.

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/01/30/the-attack-of-the-spam-bots-from-hell/#comment-64830 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 05:21:08 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/01/30/the-attack-of-the-spam-bots-from-hell/#comment-64830 I do not force moderation of comments. I do not force people to be logged in to comment. I do not force visitors to dance through captchas, adding numbers or guess at bizarre spelled words. I now often get over 1000 comment spams a day and WordPress.com’s Akismet spam catching feature gets about 98% some days, 100% others. Only when there is a glitch in the system, or a new kind of comment spam that the filtering process hasn’t learned, does the false/positives get a bit skewed.

On my other blogs I use a combination of Bad Behavior, Spam Karma, and Akismet, and rarely does anything get through.

More important to me than comment spam is making my visitor’s visit a good one without any hassles, views of comment spam, or anything other than enjoying the content. Akismet, Bad Behavior, and Spam Karma make the world of blogging a much happier place.

Is this working for me? Damn straight. The issue of server and database hits, though, makes me nuts. With my self-hosted blogs, I suffer. Luckily, with my WordPress.com blogs, that’s someone else’s problem. ;-)

]]> By: Anita http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/01/30/the-attack-of-the-spam-bots-from-hell/#comment-64817 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 05:03:37 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/01/30/the-attack-of-the-spam-bots-from-hell/#comment-64817 How’s this working out for you? I ran into this post when I searched for wordpress spambot in Google.

Really though, that’s why I moderate everything on my site … I hate to do it, but if it isn’t spam, it’s some jerk spouting off obscenities. Plus, the spam catchers seem to really hit my shared ISP hard (I sometimes get a few thousand hits per day on my humor blog, so the extra filtering sometimes makes me hit my CPU limits).

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