Comments on: How to stop Comment Spam

By: Frank Bruno

Frank Bruno — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:31:27 +0000

I stopped all my comment spam for my Wordpress blog by using “Comment Bot Nuker”. All the other plugins I tried for Wordpress only holds the comment spam from moderation. I tried them all even the “add math” and Askimet. Most all the comment spam you will get is actually from the bots that scour the Internet looking for security breaches. Using Comment Bot Nuker it nukes the comments before it is even held for moderation and lets the good comments through. So there is nothing to moderate. I don’t have to go through hundreds of comments held for moderation anymore.

By: Laarni

Laarni — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 05:41:19 +0000

Yep. Wanna try it out? :P

By: trench

trench — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:40:10 +0000

Just anti-spam image? Is that the name of the plugin?

By: Laarni

Laarni — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:01:30 +0000

I use anti-spam image, it works fine.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 03:52:02 +0000

I’ve been using Akismet for a while now too. I think we’re getting a similar amount of spam. Before I started using it, I was having to manually clean up my comments table because the admin page would time out before displaying all the comments. Nightmare. But things have been much better the past few months.

By: Shari

Shari — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:00:57 +0000

I used to have the trio installed (Akismet, Bad Behavior, and Spam Karma) but really, Akismet does the job. We just have to check for false positives — comments from legitimate users, pingbacks and trackbacks, but for the most part, it’s a lifesaver.

I don’t keep track of the number of spams I get daily, but two of the reasons why spams attack are traffic and pagerank, if I’m not mistaken.

I just wish there’s also a way to block off human spammers — those seemingly legit commenters with nonsensical comments. ;)

By: Jaypee

Jaypee — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:56:48 +0000

I’ve tried the Akismet + BB + Spam Karma combination and it eats up too much db space (most of it by Spam Karma).

Like what trench said, Akismet occasionally blacklists legit pingbacks or trackbacks. And for that reason, I go through the blacklisted comments one by one to make sure all are spam.

By: trench

trench — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:02:16 +0000

Askimet has occasionally blacklisted some “LEGIT” pingbacks. Would BB do the same? I always check my comment spam everyday, because some legit stuff does get sucked in there.

By: Jenn

Jenn — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:06:29 +0000

It’s my understanding that BB blocks spam attempts from even being sent to your site. I have two comparable sites (not my personal site) and BB is enabled on one of them. I have zero Akismet entries on it, and 168 on the site with no BB.

By: AsceticMonk

AsceticMonk — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:06:04 +0000

On my site, Akismet has already caught 133,636 spam so far.

Like Jenn, I also use Bad Behavior in addition to Akismet.

“Bad Behavior complements other link spam solutions by acting as a gatekeeper, preventing spammers from ever delivering their junk, and in many cases, from ever reading your site in the first place.”

In short, Bad Behavior blocks spammers from accessing your site, and I have to admit, ever since the activation of Bad Behavior on my site, the spam queue in Akismet is reduced, because Bad Behavior blocked some spammers before they can leave a spam. So, I highly recommend it.

According to experts in the WordCamp, the golden triangle in fighting the spam is the following: Akismet, Bad Behavior and Spam Karma.