spam plugins for wp15

  • ziddey

    (@ziddey)


    21 years, 1 month ago

    Anyone have any recommendations for spam plugins for wp15?
    I’ve been getting about 150 spam comments a day on average.
    I’ve been using spaminator, which catches at least 130 of those each day. Because of the insane amount, I disabled it from sendning an email each time it catches something. But still, I get hit with 20 or so spams a day, which is still a lot. I began using spaminator a long time ago when I had about 10 a day, so I’m back to those times.

    My question is: how safe is it to combine a bunch of different spam filters? and what other ones are good and work well with spaminator?

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    21 years, 1 month ago

    I recommend Spam Karma. For me, it was far more effective than Spaminator or any other anti-spam plugin.

    Spam karma: http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/

    Other anti-spam plugins: http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam#Plugins

    Thread Starter ziddey

    (@ziddey)

    21 years, 1 month ago

    what do you think about running them both together? I take it that spam karma will be able to catch what spaminator misses. But does spaminator ever catch spam karma’s misses?

    how about false-positives? Because of the amount of spam I get filtered, I can’t go through them and check for false positives

    thanks

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    21 years, 1 month ago

    I wouldn’t run Spaminator and Spam Karma together. They’re both very similar and will probably tip over each other. As for false positives, I only got one, and that was because it was posted from a Starbucks that was listed on an RBL. So, you may want to uncheck Spam Karma’s Real-Time Blacklist option, but that’s about it. If a legit comment comes close to being tossed as spam, the user will always be allowed to authenticate either through a captcha or email.

    Mark (podz)

    (@podz)

    21 years, 1 month ago

    There will always be errors in any system that checks for spam. It might only be one email that gets killed, but it will happen – the coders cannot cater for every single variation that us unpredictable humans throw at their code.

    It’s a comment that gets whacked – nothing more.

    If you have an email form where people can contact you if it keeps happening, cool.

    And as for running them together – try it ? It won’t blow up your blog 🙂

    Thread Starter ziddey

    (@ziddey)

    21 years, 1 month ago

    Nice! I’m liking SK quite a bit. And I found Referral Karma too, so now I’m wondering…

    what’s the difference between comment spam and referral spam?

    Thread Starter ziddey

    (@ziddey)

    21 years, 1 month ago

    nevermind. i did some searching and it sounds like it’s only in my logs, which i do see a lot of referral spam if im understanding correctly

    will do will do
    thanks

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    21 years, 1 month ago

    Actually, I’m using Referral Karma too and it has seriously cut down on the amount of comment spam. I’m assuming that most spam bots comes from spam referrals (which makes good economical sense, get two done at once), but RK’s emulated 403 error seems to stop the bots before they get to my blog.

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