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 [Watershed Studio, LLC] The Future of Spam Karma: Specifically regarding the inclusion of Akismet, I am glad that it is included for those who want to use it (its free for probably 99% of people running WordPress), but the fact that it really is a commercial product and is included in every WordPress install does invoke some sort of “that’s not right” feeling (though I do understand the business side of it).  I guess my main issue isn’t the self-promotion or the revenue potential (open source authors do deserve compensation for their work and donations are often few and far between), but more the fact that an average user would just assume that anything bundled with WordPress comes with it with no strings attached.  I think a better approach would have been to either require a manual download of the plugin with clearly defined terms or to offer some sort of standard (free) commercial version and an enhanced commercial (pay) version.

 [8 Ways to Sunday] Spam Karma Is Now Open Source Software: My favorite WordPress anti-spam plugin is now open source software. Dr. Dave, Spam Karma’s original author, is bowing out and releasing the code for maintenance by the WP user community. I sincerely hope the project succeeds, ...

 [Zero to One-Eighty] Spam Karma Released Under GPL: Dave discontinues development of his anti-spam WordPress plugin and licenses the source under the GPL. I’ve been using Spam Karma, and Michael Hampton’s Bad Behavior, on this site for around two years to great effect.

 [What I Learned Today...] SpamKarma going open source: Not that I want to take you away from the more important open source project (Koha) but maybe you should take over this one and make it awesome!!

 [Pirates! Man Your Women!] Spam Karma 2 Plugin for Automatic Deletion: The one issue I have is that for comments with a karma score below anything possibly not spam, I don’t even want saved in the first place. Most spam scores well below -50 and I don’t even want to see it.

[jasonmorrison.net] How to keep spam off your blog, bulletin board, or forum: Captchas aren’t 100 percent garanteed to remove spam but they do help.  If your forum software doesn’t have a captcha or a captcha plugin, I would seriously consider upgrading to a version that does or switching forums completely.  I know it’s a huge pain but waking up one morning to find 10,000 spam posts is even worse.

[Father Sez] These bums, don’t they have something better to do?: So for the time being, it seems that all I can do is to curse this guy each time I delete his spam. Hopefully he’ll soon find another job as a telemarketer or a used car salesman.

 [Quick Online Tips] Akismet Blocks 1 Million Spam Comments: Though Bad Behaviour and Spam Karma have been long time competitors, but new powerful competitors like Typepad Antispam and Defensio have emerged which claim more accuracy and better spam protection, but as Akismet comes bundled with .

[Business Dream Blog] Wordpress plug-ins That Gives maximum blog benefits: Visitors coming to your blog post through search engines usually leave the blog immediately after reading the post. The related posts plug-in helps you retain the visitor by providing him related posts and thus ensuring that the visitor has enough relevant content to stay on your blog.

 [wordpress Max] Increasing Interactivity on Your WordPress Blog: Another WordPress plugin is Subscribe To Comments, that will subscribe the commenter to the posts comments and send them an email when a new comment is made on a post they have commented on. There are other plugins available for polls and such but I have found that comments and the discussion on posts are what get most people coming back.

[Untitled] Akismet Blocks 1 Million Spam Comments: Though Bad Behaviour and Spam Karma have been long time competitors, but new powerful competitors like Typepad Antispam and Defensio have emerged which claim more accuracy and better spam protection, but as Akismet comes bundled with .

 [Tricia's Musings] Sick of Spammers!: Perhaps I’ll add Spam Karma to my arsenal however I’ve never really liked that plugin and what I’ve been using up until now has done the job.

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