This Blog Is Mine! …Spammers Be Gone!
TheSpot-er on November 1st, 2007
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Blog comments SPAM is perhaps one of the biggest annoyances for many bloggers. Not only do they not bring any value to the blog itself but also WASTE my time! And I will do whatever it takes to Fight the comments Spam while still sharing the link love with my commenter’s!
This Blog Is Mine! …Spammers Be Gone!
Truth to be told we all would better concentrate on creating our content, delivering information our readers expect from us instead of spending time on picking through through the comments and deleting spam. Lucky us there are great plugins that can help automate the process and while they are not perfect and have minuses, combining them creates an awesome effect of nearly 0 spam! This post will look in details of the proper implementation of these plugins…
But before I go into discussion of how to protect your blog I want to share some of the direct results of protection these plugins provide. This blog went live in April 21st and from the day one I have installed a spam protection plugin that doesn’t come as a standard. Yes, I know of Akismet but I have decided to use a more robust and features rich plugin which is responcible for killing 99% of the spam that comes through this blog. To this date it has managed to kill
7632 Spam Comments!
Can you imagine the time it would require to do it by hand? But as I have stated it it has a downfall and lately I have been quite annoyed to see these Spam Comments manage to get through:
“I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting”
I have tried to blacklist domain, ip address, blacklist it via Regex - all failed and I still got 2-3 spams on daily bases, which forced me to look for an additional solution. Since installing second plugin that works along side with first one - I had 0 spams in 2 days! That plugin managed to pickup and kill additional
171 Spam Comments by bots!
And I still share the full link love via Do Follow and CommentLuv plugins. I provide my commenter with full benefits good comment should receive and reducing manual work of fighting spam to nothing. Zero … Zilch … it is a beautiful feeling.
And Here Are the Plugins That Allow Me To Do it
- Spam Karma 2 - an awesome Ultimate killer of the spam for my blog and one I can highly recommend to anyone using WordPress. Has a great intelligence build into it to evaluate the comments and auto approve most valid comments while killing the spam dead on its tracks. But it only managed to kill 99% of the Spam and I still had that 1% to deal with…
- Bad Behavior comes to the rescue and takes care of additional 0.9%. Since installing it I haven’t got any Spam Bots posting on my blog and it works great along with Spam Karma.
Combine these two plugins and kill damn spamers. Now its your time to declare
This Blog Is Mine! …Spammers Be Gone!
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I’ve gotten more spam comments then I have legit comments to my blog. Talk about annoying. Akismet on my blog right now but I am definitely going to be looking at the plugins you have suggested. Sound like they may be a better fit then what I have now. Thanks for great resource. I just put up a couple cool resources on my site that may interest you as well.
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Thanks Robert,
Yeah … I’ve read about Akismet and while idea behind it great, two plugins I mention provide a protection that is a lot better. Until recently I was using only Spam Karma 2 and had nearly 0 spams … but looks like spam bots got smarter which prompted me to revisit the issue …
So far with great success!
Alex
Thanks for the good suggestions of spam stoppers.
My blog has been fine so far, but my brothers was getting hammered with spam comments.
I installed both addons and will check to see how well they help..
thanks
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Good luck. Using these 2 plugins kills 100% of automated spam. I still see one or two generated by some a-hole coming through but its no big deal
Dear Alex,
Yup I know that feeling I am trying to fight them off now, the funny thing is I found your blog via another one that had somehow spammed my trackback links with the culprits website located here: enter-allthings.blogspot.com.
My biggest problem is used an open source blog script and reprogrammed a lot of it, which makes it very hard (without additional programming) to add new plugins, although your topic was of great interest to me the links you rpovided were of little use, do you know whether there is other plugins that are easily integrated into scripts like the one I am using..??
Kind Regards
Richard Monssen
Well, Richard I was unable to identify what blog script you are using and you didn’t say what it is …
kinda hard for me to guess …
But I generally stay within WordPress topic anyway, sorry.
Alex
I have edited out the nofollow on my site and use akismet - I still get spam but thus far akismet seems to be doing the job very well.
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Whatever works .. as long you stay safe
Alex
I have only used akismet but keep hearing about Spam Karma.
Thanks for yet another great post.
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David,
In my opinion SK2 provides the best protection and have spared me wasted time …
Alex
Amazing plugin - just stumbled on your blog and this post caught my eye. Trying out the plugin right now and just subscribed to your RSS Feed…
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Thanks,
Yep, that plugin works rather nicely
and there are lot more described on this blog … feel free to browse around.
Alex