10
Dec
2006

Comment Spam

December 10th, 2006 at 07:08 pm by ashok in blog

How you deal with comment spam?

Is Akismet working fine for you?

When I started blogging around four month back, I started getting comment spam, before genuine comment. Spammers are always ahead of actual visitors they found new blogs before other discover it.

I asked for some solution it in digit forum from other member, some of them are experienced blogger.

First I installed Spam Karma 2 plugin, but I did not like its working as visitor did not return to blog after posting, later I installed Akismet.

Initially Akismet worked fine, but now a days it appears they are catching some genuine comments also.

After installing it, after few days I checked what comments are caught by them. I found many spam comments thought it is working fine, never checked after that for three months what Akismet is doing.

Few days earlier, I again checked the spam caught by Akismet. I was surprised to find that Akismet is also catching legitimate comment and flagging them as spam.

Now I check every day spam caught by akismet to find legitimate comment. It appears instead of making job easy it is making my job hard.

Now thinking for some another solution, can someone suggest what should I do?

Technorati Tags: Comment Spam, spamming, blog, akismet

ashok

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Comments

Madhur Kapoor Said,
I am using akismet from the beginning . But nowdays it catches some genuine comments also and sometimes some spam comments also sneak through . Am thinking of trying Math plugin with it ..

Mr.Cool Said,
I faced the same problem too. But only in the early stages. Nowadays, it recognizes what is spam and what is not…. but i still check it everyday to ensure it hasn’t caught any genuine comment.

Shivaranjan Said,
I have been using Spam Karma 2 from the time I started blogging and it never gave me any trouble and it is very effective in fighting spam and more over it does not mark legitimate comments as spam.

Ashok Said,
Yes, Madhur I think Akismet need to upgrade their algorithm.
@Cool, Sooner or later you will find that Akismet is catching legitmate comment

@Shivranjan I commented in your blog many time, did not notice you are using Spam Karma, In my blog it was working weirdly so I removed it after trying it for one day.

Angad Said,
I’m using Textpattern, and I haven’t recieved a single bit of comment span to date. Okay I got one medical thingie selling viagra but that’s it.
Nor do I know any other textpattern user who got spammed, a few comments is acceptable.