I ran Spam Karma last night and this morning the only comments on the blog were two for Casinos and Poker — both spam. Ther should have been about 60 comments for approval from my experience. Some people who tried to post got the runaround and there is nothing at all in the comment folder. So if you tried to post, sorry. I deactivated the thing. I’ll keep looking for other devices.
PS I still get no email spam, I can assure you.
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“PS I still get no email spam, I can assure you.”
You Sir, are a riot.
I know that I and millions around the world are sleeping better knowing that Computer Guru, and ended the spam issue.
Knowing that John is assuring the population about his lack of spam, is making million if not tens sleep better.
Thanks John for all your do for humanity sake.
Chris Vaughn
PS: Please use your super powers only for good.
The best solutions I’ve found are Hash Cache, and Bad Behavior. Both are very complementary, and stop almost all spam. I only get manually entered spam now… so very very little.
Spam Karma really doesn’t work, I’ve never liked it. Too many false positives.
Yes, well I had it on good authority that Spam Karma was great…I would have been less annoyed except for the fact that the only posts that actually got through WERE SPAM! I’ll check out these other initiatives, thanks.
I know it isn’t the same for WordPress but I use Drupal and the Spam addin works really well. It uses lists from http://www.surbl.org/lists.html to choose which comments to block.
I’m sure some bright spark could write a similar addin for WordPress.
Quite a lot of the spam sent my way gets caught by my ISP(Cox Cable). The rest gets caught by the Bayseian filter in my Mozilla mail reader, which can be trained to tell the difference between good messages and Spam. Mozilla Thunderbird also has a built in Bayseian filter. I know nothing about Spam Karma, unless that’s what Cox uses.