Comments on: Moving Due to Comments

By: BetaCandy

BetaCandy — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:07:56 +0000

There’s one more option:

http://tantannoodles.com/toolkit/spam-filter/

I was getting at least 20 poker/pillz spams a day before I installed it. Now I get about 7 per month, and only have to moderate maybe 2 (the rest go straight to the spam filter). It only forces commenters to go through the captcha process if something about their behavior is “suspicious”, so no visitors have complained.

The good news is, very few comments even make it to the spam filter, let alone the moderation page, which makes checking the moderation page for accidental blocked comments from decent folk that much easier.

By: Julie

Julie — Sun, 04 May 2008 11:41:16 +0000

I hate captchas and I hope you don’t have to go that route. If you are self-hosting toddleddredge.com there are other plugins you can use on top of akismet that should help. Another thing that might help is changing your settings so that comments from new visitors have to be approved first. It’s much more fun to approve new comments than to have to delete nasty spam. Ok, I’m off to update my feed now.

By: Emily

Emily — Sun, 04 May 2008 02:16:56 +0000

Can’t wait to read your new posts at your new domain! Will the past posts be available to read? I haven’t finished the 12 Days of Christmas yet and really want to!

By: boomama

boomama — Sat, 03 May 2008 20:59:11 +0000

Hey - if you use the comment timeout plug in and set it so that no one can comment on posts older than, say, 10 days, it’ll wipe out most of the spam. FOR REAL.

Signed,
Someone Who Was Once Getting Around 500 Spam Comments A Day Before The Comment Timeout Plugin Was Installed, Oh Yes Ma’am

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Sat, 03 May 2008 20:23:25 +0000

I don’t LOVE word verification, but I don’t mind it terribly, either. Spam is just INFURIATING. AWFUL. NO FUN.
As are creepy anonymous comments. They suck, too.