Plugin Update: Spam Karma

Yzabel / September 24, 2005

Yes, yes, I know WordPress has solid built-in spam-catching functions; I must simply admit that receiving an e-mail everytime a spammer posts a comment, so that I can decide whether to approve or reject it, is getting tiresome. I could also tighten the features and make it so that these messages are deleted without even asking for approbation first, but given that some of the genuine comments I receive here sometimes get caught in it too—much to my dismay, since I see no reason why (they don’t even contain any links), I don’t want to take the risk.This is the reason why I’ve installed Spam Karma 2. I had been testing it on another blog that had become a spammers’ target, and so far it’s been working pretty well. This is the second version, too, and there shouldn’t be any “false positives” (genuine posts caught as spam), but if any of you were to experience their comments being blocked and not appearing on the site even after one day or so, please send me an e-mail about it (the address is in the Author section on the right). The plugin sends me a daily digest of blocked spam comments, and I can restore them if I want to, yet it can happen that I miss one.spam+karma, plugin, wordpress

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  • melly

    Don’t you have these word verification thingys?Admittedly, the blogger one drives me nuts, I have to retype the words nearly 30% of the times, but at least it works and you don’t have to go through emails and all that.

  • Karen Lee Field

    I’ve been using Spam Karma 2 for a couple of months now, and it’s brilliant. It’s never sent a genuine comment to “hell” and has never let nasty comments through.I’m sure you’ll love it too.

  • Yzabel

    Melly, I don’t think the CAPTCHA thing is integrated into WordPress, but I cana ctivate it through the “preview comments” plugin if needs be. I find it quite annoying myself though (some of these images are seriously impossible to read… no kidding), so I wasn’t sure if it was a good idea to integrate it or not. Perhaps I could indeed give it a try.

  • Yzabel

    Karen, thanks for your input. Oddly enough, your comment (along with two others, and I think you had to retype yours) weren’t posted… I got them into my mailbox, but nothing on the site, although they were in the database. I had to deactivate SK2 to repost them myself after deleting them (sorry for this, I promise I didn’t touch anything, just copied and pasted!). I’m not sure if this was the reason why, but now I’m wondering. Probably some settings I need to fine tune, although I’ve used the same ones on my other blog and it hasn’t prevented anyone from commenting. Weird…

  • Pozycjonowanie

    Someone else below asked this already about antispam scripts.I am getting nailed with Spam on my website mails and in our blog website – now its offline too much spam. Is there anyway to stop this? If not, there really isn’t any point in leaving it up and active. Any help will be greatly appreciated.Thanks for help, Keep up the good work. Greetings from Poland

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