Comments on: Reducing Comment Spam to a Trickle http://metabestblogwin.com/2007/02/27/reducing-comment-spam-to-a-trickle/ It's like that story in D. Hofstadter's book about the Tortoise, Achilles and the Djinni who pushed and popped their way into nested levels of awareness, only it's a blog. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:40:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Flexo http://metabestblogwin.com/2007/02/27/reducing-comment-spam-to-a-trickle/#comment-152 Flexo Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:34:16 +0000 http://metabestblogwin.com/2007/02/27/reducing-comment-spam-to-a-trickle/#comment-152 Thanks for laying this all out. I'm going to implement most of what you've found. Thanks for doing the hard work of experimenting so I can benefit. :-) Thanks for laying this all out. I’m going to implement most of what you’ve found. Thanks for doing the hard work of experimenting so I can benefit. :-)

]]> By: jdroth http://metabestblogwin.com/2007/02/27/reducing-comment-spam-to-a-trickle/#comment-154 jdroth Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:52:10 +0000 http://metabestblogwin.com/2007/02/27/reducing-comment-spam-to-a-trickle/#comment-154 I've always just used Akismet. This used to require a *lot* of grunt work on my part, sifting through for false positives. I had to sort 1200-1500 messages a day. (And the stupid new Akismet "paging" scheme, where you only get to see 50 messages a page, was driving me insane. How dumb is that really? I mean, come on, that's 30 pages I have to sort through instead of one. Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb.) Anyhow, on a whim I activated the "automatically discard spam on messages older than 30 days" option and voila! No more headaches. I still get just as much spam, but I don't have to deal with most of it. I only have to process 20-30 messages a day. I'm sure I'm losing a couple of false positives, but I've had no readers complain. And to be honest -- it's worth it to me in order to have my spam headaches completely vanish. I’ve always just used Akismet. This used to require a *lot* of grunt work on my part, sifting through for false positives. I had to sort 1200-1500 messages a day. (And the stupid new Akismet “paging” scheme, where you only get to see 50 messages a page, was driving me insane. How dumb is that really? I mean, come on, that’s 30 pages I have to sort through instead of one. Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb.)

Anyhow, on a whim I activated the “automatically discard spam on messages older than 30 days” option and voila! No more headaches. I still get just as much spam, but I don’t have to deal with most of it. I only have to process 20-30 messages a day. I’m sure I’m losing a couple of false positives, but I’ve had no readers complain. And to be honest — it’s worth it to me in order to have my spam headaches completely vanish.

]]> By: nickel http://metabestblogwin.com/2007/02/27/reducing-comment-spam-to-a-trickle/#comment-155 nickel Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:58:44 +0000 http://metabestblogwin.com/2007/02/27/reducing-comment-spam-to-a-trickle/#comment-155 JD: Where can I find that setting? There are no options to set on Akismet, so it must be somewhere else. Thanks. JD: Where can I find that setting? There are no options to set on Akismet, so it must be somewhere else. Thanks.

]]> By: Blaine Moore (First Time Home Owner) http://metabestblogwin.com/2007/02/27/reducing-comment-spam-to-a-trickle/#comment-157 Blaine Moore (First Time Home Owner) Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:28:27 +0000 http://metabestblogwin.com/2007/02/27/reducing-comment-spam-to-a-trickle/#comment-157 Nickel, Its in your plugins section: {domain}/wp-admin/plugins.php?page=akismet-key-config There is a checkbox below where you type your key in. Nickel,

Its in your plugins section:

{domain}/wp-admin/plugins.php?page=akismet-key-config

There is a checkbox below where you type your key in.

]]> By: nickel http://metabestblogwin.com/2007/02/27/reducing-comment-spam-to-a-trickle/#comment-158 nickel Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:56:27 +0000 http://metabestblogwin.com/2007/02/27/reducing-comment-spam-to-a-trickle/#comment-158 Ahhh... I see... Unfortunately, it was already checked in my case, so checking it won't improve things any further. Thanks. Ahhh… I see… Unfortunately, it was already checked in my case, so checking it won’t improve things any further. Thanks.

]]> By: jdroth http://metabestblogwin.com/2007/02/27/reducing-comment-spam-to-a-trickle/#comment-159 jdroth Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:53:20 +0000 http://metabestblogwin.com/2007/02/27/reducing-comment-spam-to-a-trickle/#comment-159 Interesting. I wonder if there's something else going on, Nickel. When I first selected it, it didn't improve anything. But after the last "forced" WP upgrade at Dreamhost, it all of a sudden kicked in. I'm telling you: it's wonderful! :0 Interesting. I wonder if there’s something else going on, Nickel. When I first selected it, it didn’t improve anything. But after the last “forced” WP upgrade at Dreamhost, it all of a sudden kicked in. I’m telling you: it’s wonderful! :0

]]> By: Yan http://metabestblogwin.com/2007/02/27/reducing-comment-spam-to-a-trickle/#comment-268 Yan Sat, 10 Mar 2007 05:17:55 +0000 http://metabestblogwin.com/2007/02/27/reducing-comment-spam-to-a-trickle/#comment-268 Thanks for the roundup. I just renamed wp-comments-post, will see if it helps. By the way, I could only see one place where it is referenced from my blog theme. Did you have more than one file to edit? Thanks for the roundup. I just renamed wp-comments-post, will see if it helps.

By the way, I could only see one place where it is referenced from my blog theme. Did you have more than one file to edit?

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