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[Prestidigitation] Eventually I’ll have to stop using it and switch to akismet, which everyone else uses for anti-spam. You absolutely MUST have something to prevent comment spam or you’ll be swamped almost immediately.

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[Weblog Tools Collection] Security And Anti-spam Plugins For WordPress | Weblog Tools Collection: Anti-spam WordPress Plugins. Akismet - One of the best plugins to protect your WordPress blogs against spam comments, this plugin has worked like a charm for many users, saving then time and effort while moderating and managing comments.

[Alas, a blog] Alas, a blog » Blog Archive » Spam spam spam spam: has been crappy for a while. At this point, it’s basically impossible to post a link in comments without being mistaken for spam.

[nFriedly Web Dev Tech Blog] How to build a spam-free contact form without captchas - nFriedly ...: Spammers steal your email address by scanning through the source code of the site and grabbing anything that looks like an email address. So we’re going to make sure that there is no email address in the source code and instead generate it by JavaScript.

[Holy Shmoly!] How to successfully spam blogs (and how to fight back): Lately what I did was remove the links out of a spammer’s bot comments so that my site would rank for his keywords (Not that I was interested in them, but to spite him) Of course the bot interpreted it as an open blog so I received a bunch from the same source immediately after so I had to blacklist it. Still left the url stripped ones though

[p2pnet news] p2pnet news » Blog Archive » Problems with Akismet anti-spam: update: When you see a Comment in the spam queue, it can be that the person left a Comment elsewhere that was snarky or bitchy or even spammy and was *manually* marked SPAM at *that* site. From that point on, Akismet will treat that Commenter as spam across all blogs and sites using Akismet.

[Holy Shmoly!] More ways to stop spammers and unwanted traffic: I, too have been plagued by spam (100,000 in one day), and tried to use this stuff. However, I put some of this stuff in my htaccess file (assuming that is where it is supposed to go–it never says in the post) and was blocked from my own site.

[Andy Beard - Niche Marketing] Wide Circles = Blog Comment Spam: I have no problem with software that seeks out DoFollow blogs for people, but once on my blog, I do expect some intelligent commentary (not the "bulk" messages some software out there are peddling - spam, indeed!)And as my blog grows in popularity, I will raise the bar on what qualifies as intelligent.

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