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[Untitled] (I finally turned on Akismet on my last year’s blog, just so I wouldn’t have to delete a bunch of spams from the moderation queue, and by billy it worked. I’m on Wordpress.com currently, which already has the spam-filter set up.)

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[Untitled] Awesome spam filtering for WordPress - geek ramblings: I agree that the main drawback in this kind of defence is that it’s not easy to know what’s going on with false positives, and I’m not very comfortable with this, but, on the other hand, the alternative I was considering was to stop checking the Akismet queue for false positives, so, why let them in in the first place?

[JWRmedia.com] Blog Comment Spam- You May Have Caused It: Unfortunately, the only way to completely eliminate comment spam on your blog is to manually approve each and every comment, which may not go over too well with your readers and takes up all of your time. However, by taking a careful look at each comment before you approve it to be displayed on your blog, you can greatly decrease the amount of spam comments that may be posted in the future.

[Daily Pundit] Daily Pundit » How About A National Shall-Issue?: Note: Daily Pundit uses the Akismet spam filter, which has been known, on occasion, to start flagging regular commenters' submissions as spam for a while until we can smack it around enough to change its mind. If you're having problems like this, you can bypass Akismet by registering.

[Untitled] The Ann Arbor Chronicle » Chronicle Comments: Spam Or Not: For that reason, you’re more likely to have a comment incorrectly flagged as spam when you post from publicly-accessible IP addresses (libraries, coffee shops, etc.). Many comments are made from those IP addresses, which increases the likelihood that someone using one of those IP address before you has made a comment which Akismet has flagged as spam, thus flagging all subsequent comments from that IP address - including yours - as spam.

[Untitled] Additional spam filter and comment subscriptions installed - boche ...: If the comment fails either of the previously mentioned filter checks, then the comment submission will be challenged by a reCAPTCHA banner image.  If the reCAPTCHA banner image is decoded successfully, the comment will post.  If the reCAPTHA banner image is not decoded successfully, the comment is immediately rejected and discarded (it won’t wait for me in a spam queue for approval).

[BigDadGib 2008] Must Have Plugins For Your WordPress Blog: I then reference the text files anywhere in the blog template and the plugin will rotate between the ads found in the text file. Before using this plugin, I could only offer advertisers the option to manually switch out ad creatives every 2-4 weeks.

[Untitled] that canadian girl » Blog Archive » WordPress & Akismet: Why It’s ...: Some of the comment spam coming through at the moment sure requires a double-take so deviously composed it is, I could *almost* understand why some bloggers are approving such comments. But otherwise you are right, take no prisoners, hit the spam button

[WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er] Comment Spam Filter Comes To Rescue Akismet: While there are many plugins that help you with dealing with Comment Spam I’ve had hardest time finding one that works effectively in combination with WP Super Cache and Akismet. And I have tried multitude of option!

[How To Make My Blog - Blogging Ideas, Tips and Tutorials!] 9 settings I always adjust as soon as I install a new WordPress blog: These were the 9 adjustments I always do on my WordPress blogs before I start working with plugins. I would recommend you to spend some time and browse the WordPress platform, get familiar with it and adjust some settings that you find relevant. 

[Untitled] 7 Must-Have Wordpress Plugins | Astro-Geek:3000: Going through the plugins I’ve installed for this site, I realized that there were several that I always install in my new blogs. A few of these you’ll recognize and will probably already have installed on your own blog.

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