Comments on: New Version of Spam Karma Released

By: Urban

Urban — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:10:32 +0000

akismet is doing a great job with spam karma, but i also like the anti-spam-bee. that one works pretty good aswell!

By: Purple Pursuit » Blog Archive » Lavender Crocs Report on WordCamp 2007 Israel

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 22:02:45 +0000

[...] Lorelle came to Israel for the conference, and among other things, she lectured about trackback spam. [...]

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Fri, 18 May 2007 05:39:28 +0000

The Spam Blogged bit of clutter on my blog is there only because Matt Mullenweg asked. It’s a widget for Automattic’s Akismet. I believe that Spam Karma has a link or javascript you can add to your blog. It’s a great way to promote that you are using Spam Karma but no one really cares except you. I’d recommend keeping your blog clutter to a minimum.

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Fri, 18 May 2007 05:33:30 +0000

Hi there!
I had a blog in WP.com but then I moved to my own server, it’s not that expensive ( I think I could by those beers later ). Anyway. I see you have a “Spam Blocked” section. I would like to know how you did that as I want to put it on my site
thanks!

By: Graham English

Graham English — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 05:19:58 +0000

I just installed it. I was thinking about it for a while but didn’t know how it would work with Akismet, which just wasn’t cutting it lately. Spam has been getting really bad on my blogs. What’s cool is it seems to fix a serious problem that I was having regarding Ultimate Tag Warrior. Since the update to WP 2.1, UTW would delete all tags when I would approve a comment. Since I approve them all manually, I would have to pull up the original post, copy all the tags, delete the comment, edit the post and copy all the tags back into the post. It was getting to be too much maintenance. But the thought of turning manual comment approval off didn’t turn me on, because I would be letting all that nasty spam through, which would probably just attract more spam.

Anyway, it works great and just saved me a lot of time… for now, that is. Thanks for the heads up to the new release.

By: Jermayn Parker

Jermayn Parker — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 01:59:24 +0000

This is what I personally use and have found it the best and easiest to use so far including Askimat that everyone goes ‘go-ga’ over.

In over two months of using it, I have not had to deal with any spam getting through and that includes what is being held in ‘moderation’…

By: Wordpress Plugin: Spam Karma 2

Wordpress Plugin: Spam Karma 2 — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 01:50:54 +0000

[...] making my switch to WordPress and so far I’ve had a lot of success, until I saw a recent post by Lorelle that got me excited about Spam Karma 2, which recently released new version 2.3. This new version [...]

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:57:23 +0000

Comment spam ebbs and flows. Our receipt and control of what is filtered out also changes as Akismet and other comment spam fighting tools like Spam Karma and Bad Behavior improve and change.

Last year, there were three months with hardly a single comment spam. I thought for sure that we’d managed to beat them down. Two months later, their ranks were multiplied by 15. Made up for the slight slowdown.

We’ve got to criminalize comment spam at the source. That’s the only way to stop it.

By: James

James — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:41:45 +0000

Strangely, comment spam for the past few days has been a fraction of what it has been the last couple of months. It would be interesting to find out why.
Still, I am going to take your advice and look at Spam Karma. It is a real pain going through some of it to make sure a good comment has not gotten labeled by Akismet. I am very thankful for Akismet.