Comments on: A Simple Trick To Fight Wordpress Comment Spam

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:29:31 +0000

I´ll chance the option just now. thanks for your tipp.

By: Abhijeet

Abhijeet — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:51:49 +0000

@Eldo Not sure. I thought Blogger blogs fought spammers better than other platforms. But now since you are saying it doesn’t work, I think you’d have to research and find out if there is a service which helps blogger blogs to prevent spam.

By: Eldo Arfendika

Eldo Arfendika — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:20:54 +0000

May you tell me how to fight spammer in Blogger blog??
In many article, I think captcha don’t work anymore.

Thanks

By: Ben Finklea

Ben Finklea — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:50:28 +0000

I agree that Mollom rocks. I still occasionally get a human who posts some spam but it has cut down on the spam on my site by 99%. I use the free version. I wonder if the 60-day rule and Mollom are compatible? I can’t see why they wouldn’t be…

By: A Brit in Brussels

A Brit in Brussels — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:24:25 +0000

Hi,
I think the 60 day rule is good if your blogs entries are kind of ‘newsy’.

For blogs that you are going to keep useful info forever it doesnt work so well.

I had never heard of Mollom – so thanks for the tip guys.

Regards

By: CashMakers

CashMakers — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 12:32:38 +0000

Thanks, this is a great WP + Akismet guide. Getting sick and tired of all this spam on my blog. Thanks again!

By: Dhiaqis

Dhiaqis — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:55:03 +0000

Hai.. good idea. I’ve noticed that setting but I don’t realized the benefits.

By: Bill Masson

Bill Masson — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:44:14 +0000

I was getting truckloads of trackback spam on my blog, so I popped over to WordPress and copied their spam list and pasted if into my blacklist in WP admin. The spam completely stopped, showing up in my comments, but the site counter was still recording the spam. The Blacklistis mainly words but I have added suspected spam URLs.

By: Abhijeet

Abhijeet — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:01:03 +0000

@Ankur – Cool. Mollom is definitely worth a try then.

By: Ankur Banerjee

Ankur Banerjee — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:12:53 +0000

Mollom offers an upgrade too, akin to Akismet pro licenses. 100 comments is 100 _legitimate_ comments; spam comments are not counted into this limit. The reason why it sounds good is because in Akismet there’s a chance of false positive, i.e., a genuine comment gets sent to spam. Frankly, not many people have the time to go through spam queue.

Mollom has been made by Dries Buytart, the creator of Drupal, so it has some serious mojo under the hood and backing from loads of people.

By: Abhijeet

Abhijeet — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:49:41 +0000

@Ankur – Mollom looks good except for the fact that its free version is limited to 100 captchas per day. Regarding closing comments on old posts, I’d say it’s better to do it or else a blogger could spend his entire day answering comments…or he might just ignore it which doesn’t solve any purpose. If the person has genuine queries then he could always use the contact section to ask the blogger.

@Raju – I’ll give Antispam bee a shot. Thanks.

By: Raju

Raju — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:39:03 +0000

Earlier this month I wrote a post on exactly same topic but with a different solution. The post is titled "How I reduced Spam on my Wordpress Blog by 99%?" Much easier for blog owner, and no irritation to readers with those captchas!

By: Ankur Banerjee

Ankur Banerjee — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:14:58 +0000

Actually, there’s a better way to handle this than simply closing comments (which, BTW, has been around in WordPress for a very long time). Use Mollom. Under normal circumstances Mollom uses Akismet-type filtering to check if a comment is spam or not. If it thinks it’s spam then instead of sending to spam it prompts the user to solve a CAPTCHA. Now, if the user is human – instead of a spam bot – he’ll be able to solve the CAPTCHA and this his comment will be posted. That way, you don’t need to close comments on an old post. A person may still have queries related to it, you know.