Targeting Spam > Akismet - the global anti spam plugin for wordpress

[LiewCF.com] Akismet works like Spam Karma, but instead collecting spam data from a single site, Akismet collects data globally from all blogs using Akismet. Theoretically, Akismet should work better than the locally installed Spam Karma.

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[gHacks technology news] Recent Increase In Trackback Spam: Disable trackbacks: Stops all trackback spam but also legitimate trackbacks; Moderate all trackbacks: Takes lots of time and patience; Block Hosts: Block some hosts from accessing your web server; Pray that Akismet or another Wordpress ... I use Spam Karma 2. After a few weeks of trial-and-error on its settings, SK2 is catching 0% false positives and 0% false negatives on my blogs, even on pingbacks and trackbacks. End result: I still have my 'Website' box and I require ...

[© 1999 - 2009 Lololov World â™] WORDPRESS GOD: 300+ Tools for Running Your WordPress Blog: Akismet Anti-spam plugin from the creators of WordPress that uses a central database of spam comments to identify spam. Requires a free API key from WordPress.com Spam Karma Analyzes comments for spam based on a karma system.

[Kikolani] Akismet, Spam Filters and Comment Moderation - Kikolani: I just rebuilt my entire site using WP and Thesis (combining a static site and a separate Blogger blog) and turned on Akismet on Day Two. I don’t know if Blogger just filtered it better or WP blogs tend to be more popular targets, but I’m happy to approve false positives when the alternative is constant spam in Russian or some such.

[Copyblogger] Confessions of a Trackback Spammer: Please”¦ Stop Me! | Copyblogger: And while IP deny seems like it’s a great tool (if you have cpanel, you can deploy it from there), for some reason it didn’t do a whole helluva lot against the spammers I was up against (mostly because they knew how to hide the IP torproject ftw).

[T. Longren] Good Bye Spam Karma 2. Hello Akismet. « T. Longren: But to clarify things a bit here, I had to drop Akismet for awhile when Akismet had problems with their servers and my “spamments” caught by the plugin were being deleted immediately rather than being held in the Akismet queue for me to check over.

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