Comments on: Comment Spam Catcher Spam Karma 2.2 Released

By: Kirk M

Kirk M — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:35:36 +0000

Thanks again. I believe I’ve got a handle on things now and I’ll check out “Winning the Battle”

And thanks for providing all this excellent info for all of us “yearling” WP type bloggers. You are truly appreciated for your effort. I hope more folks let you know that and if they don’t…they should.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 03:09:45 +0000

I have never had to use Spam Karma's blacklist. It works excellently without it. You can use Akismet with Spam Karma, Bad Behavior, or just two of the three of your choice. They all work together. No stress. I recommend you also check out I’m Winning the Battle Against Comment Spam to help you a little more. Good luck.

By: Kirk M

Kirk M — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 03:04:39 +0000

Thank you so much. Perhaps a couple more questions then I have to head to bed (it’s late here in the Northeast Kingdom)).

Would you recommend running the Akismet 2.0 plugin also (I have the Spam Karma-2-Akismet plugin added to SK2 as well)? I understand that you don’t have to but it occurs to me that SK2′s blacklist wouldn’t be “fleshed out” properly if Akismet were running along side it. Meanwhile, I’ll mind your instructions when I deal with the spam and check out Bad Behavior also.

Thanks for the quick answer.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:18:16 +0000

Just go slowly and stick with the Recent Spam Harvest Page to go through and carefully select which comments are spam and which are not. Then Remove them. Ignore the rest of the configuration pages and such, except for the good comments under Approved Comments, marking the ones that get through as spam by checking them and clicking Moderate Selected.

That will get you through fine. And consider adding Bad Behavior to stop them before they get in.

By: Kirk M

Kirk M — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 01:02:46 +0000

I just installed Spam Karma 2 in place of Akismet (while Akismet gets their server problem fixed) and I was wondering if you know of anyone that might have posted “How to” type of instructions on how to use it. I understand that you can set it and forget it (mostly) but I’ve found that while it’s been working well enough, it did flag some of the comments from my long time commenter’s as spam and blacklisted them even though I could see no reason for it. In attempting to fix this error I somehow lost 5 comments.

If you happen to know of any “do’s and don’t's” posts for SK2 please let me know. It’s too easy to make mistakes with this plugin.