Comments on: The spam comments can still go through

By: What are spams and why we must fight them–life-logs

What are spams and why we must fight them–life-logs — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:53:54 +0000

[...] Recently, I have written about the spam comments, which still queued in my moderation list. Maybe some of you out there still dont have any idea what is spam exactly. I have stumbled upon an interesting thread in Webmaster Malaysia forum discussing about the meaning of spam in easy words. And this description catch my attention: SPAM = Stupid Pointless Annoying Message! [...]

By: korokmu

korokmu — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 14:08:44 +0000

I agree with you Lorelle. Let the spammers win is a very bad idea. The best way to get more comments is making the readers easy to comment. No need to add two numbers or tick on a check box before they can comment.

By: Lorelle

Lorelle — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:08:04 +0000

I’m glad you eliminated the unnecessary math test. Hate those. And please, stopping spam by requiring registration to comment is just letting comment spammers win. Don’t do that!

You and your readers deserve more than letting these Internet terrorists win.

Thanks for bringing the issue up and helping people understand that making readers jump through hoops to comment only stops the conversation.

By: korokmu

korokmu — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 00:39:29 +0000

I had activated three plug-ins (SK2, Askimet, and Did u pass math) but still spam comments queue in my moderation list.

And after reading the comment of RajaBlog, I disabled the Did u pass math plug-in.

The best way to kill spam is to allow only registered users to comment. But, it is not reader-friendly.

By: Rajablog.info

Rajablog.info — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 17:59:03 +0000

yes, you should use SPAM karma 2.

The problem with “Did u pass math” is sometimes it get insane, i mean after visitors write the comment (esp long) and fill in the correct number, it will appear “did you pass your math?”
-p.s: sometimes-

its anoying when that person write long comment. Do you think he wants to write it back? Me? Sure Not!

By: noor hidayat

noor hidayat — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:57:59 +0000

Spam Karma 2 is a combination of several different filters. It uses Akismet and the rechecks it with several other filters before passing up the comments. It’s good.

By: korokmu

korokmu — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:57:03 +0000

Is it possible to use the combination of spam karma, askimet, and Did you pass math? Spam is very annoying.

By: noor hidayat

noor hidayat — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 09:44:56 +0000

I make life easier for everyone.. I use Spam Karma 2. hehe

By: Bat

Bat — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 09:30:25 +0000

Erm..recently, there one project based on akismet that used Ruby on Rails at http://rubyforge.org/projects/ror-akismet/