November 12th, 2008 • 06:11

Eliminating comment spam

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!

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  • Feb 12th 2009 • 15:02
    by iPod touch

    Some very interesting and insightful thoughts. I like this.

  • Jul 24th 2009 • 00:07
    by Rainer

    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.

  • Aug 1st 2009 • 15:08
    by mobilya

    wery nice pluging thanks

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    by Online poker

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