Lately, comment spam has been a big problem and I was sick of clearing around 15 – 20 or so spam comments that wordpress catches. Some of them escapes and was getting published. I knew about Akismet but the problem with that is you have to get an account on wordpress.com and give the API key. Annoying.
I’ve used re-captcha in the past but it creates more problems than it solves. Often times I find it frustrating if I have to go through a captcha which is unreadable. Sometimes you get it wrong several times and lose the interest to comment and you just go away.
During my quest for a world with zero spam without any captchas, I stumbled on the awesome WP-SpamFree plugin. Zero comment spam so far! w00t. Rock on Scott!
Some very interesting and insightful thoughts. I like this.
I’m not sure if the WP-SpamFree plug-in isn’t an overkill and giving a false positive.
I get that error message — “Your location has been identified as part of a reported spam network. Comments have been disabled to prevent spam.” — when I try to post on particular sites.
I’m NOT a spammer. Where is the problem? How can I post a comment? is it the site where I’m trying to post a comment, or is it something on MY system.
Again, I’m not a spammer. I’ve never had this message before.
wery nice pluging thanks
I agree about your comment about Re-captcha and also find the difficulty of correctly reading the letters a great disincentive to add comments. Whatever you are using obviously does not work that well based on one of the previous comments… I am now using Block-Spam-By-Math on one of my WordPress blogs and, for the time being, simply turning off comments on my other blog – sad but necessary.
I have quite a few WP sites and I was getting lots of spam comments. Thanks for the plugin tip.
I have used Akismet in Blogs for a long time, but that now has a monthly fee. It is worth looking at your recommended plugin, so thanks for that. Spam comments can also be a problem on ordinary html sites that allow comments. I moved away from blogs at one time partly because of spam and bought into a private html template for future sites. That had a custom comment script. After a few months some porn merchant had cracked that open and comments had to be shut down.