Best methods to reduce spam?

ashground · 2011-05-25 02:04:48

My blog has been hit hard by comment spam this last week. I’ve looked at a number of plugins, but they all seem very old and unmaintained. How are people fighting this? For now I’m moderating everything, but it would be nice to not have to.

SuMu · 2011-05-25 04:57:44

rah_comment_spam – the best :-)

Last edited by SuMu (2011-05-25 04:58:22)

douglgm · 2011-05-25 07:03:41

I’d recommend rah_comment_spam too. Had a wave of new comment spam over the last couple of weeks. rah_comment_spam has it nicely controlled.

Doug.

Vienuolis · 2011-05-25 20:11:08

I have switched comments to Disq.us service, and I am happy so far.

ashground · 2011-05-26 17:15:23

I already had rah_comment_spam running. I’ve tried tweaking some settings a bit, but so far it hasn’t actually caught a single piece of spam (and yes, I’ve tested and it seems to be working correctly). The biggest problem with the spam is it seems to be pulling quotes from the article as the body of the comment. The only URL is the one in the “website” input. They’re kind of hard to catch that way.

TheEric · 2011-06-02 22:43:41

+1 Akismet

jayrope · 2011-06-09 16:52:39

Eric, is there a texp plugin version of akismet? i just found a WP and a drupal plug, can#t be, that we don’t have it :)

EDIT: Oh, commercial. However, a plugin could work by just inserting a private key once…

Last edited by jayrope (2011-06-09 17:29:47)

Gocom · 2011-06-09 20:52:07

jayrope wrote:

Eric, is there a texp plugin version of akismet? i just found a WP and a drupal plug, can#t be, that we don’t have it :)

There is mem_akismet. Not sure if Manfre’s plugin and Bret Kuhn’s akismet class is still work. …but there is one at least.

EDIT: Oh, commercial. However, a plugin could work by just inserting a private key once…

There are no licensing issue or anything like that, nothing that would effect GPLv2 (which is what TXP uses). Neither the private key matters, as it would in any case be user-configurable via admin-side interface and stored in database.

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