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New Spam Fighting Plugin Better Than Akismet?
- paulgb 19y agoYou might be surprised how effective it is just to make sure the user has JavaScript on. Almost all spam-bots do not execute the JavaScript so it is a fairly reliable way to determine if a comment is spam or not. For users without JavaScript you can still degrade nicely to a "type this number in this box" question. Sure, it would be easy to write a bot to get around it, but spammers would be better off just looking for other blogs to spam. I hate to sound self-promotional, but I did write a plugin that does this for WordPress which can be found here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jsspamblock/ http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jsspamblock/ .
- especkman 19y agoWhy is the interesting? Some weak marketing speak (oh, but with attitude) and no product I can actually try without giving them my contact info and hoping they pick me (please, oh please, pick me, please) BTW, I've never used Akismet because I started using Spamkarma2 before Akismet became standard. SK2 has done an excellent job for me. It scores spam using a bunch of different tests, including an encrypted javascript payload. I've had very few false positives or negatives.
- henning 19y agowho knows? vaporware for now. no solid information as to how they're differentiating themselves, and i doubt they licensed akismet's corpus, which is well over half a billion in size. it could be just as flaky and unreliable as akismet.