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 [Websitetology] Options to Akismet and Spam Karma 2: Mollom: Spammers will say the stupidist things just to get a link back to their site- or even something innocuous like “Nice site, I’ll be back” or some other compliment that adds nothing to the conversation.

 [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.

 [Comments for Andy Beard - Niche Marketing] Comment on Akismet False Positives & Spam Karma Configuration by ...: Well, I started with Spam Karma and was happy with until one bad day came - my hosting provider closed my account because it was using too much of CPU resources, mostly because of DB queries generated by spambots and Spam Karma fighting them. Changing the hosting company isn't an easy task, especially when you want to get you site running again - I had to get rid of Spam Karma and switch to Akismet.

 [I'm Knight] Spam Karma get GPLed: Happen to click the spam karma page today when setting up my brother blog, although is about 2 week later , spam karma 2 goes GPL. I start using spam karma 2 for antispam then after some time by some plugin help i mix it with akismet .

 [8 Ways to Sunday] Spam Karma Is Now Open Source Software: 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, because I’ve always found Akismet completely inadequate.

[StudioWordpress] How to fight against comment spam in your Wordpress Blog!: Spam is the word which is a big pain in the you know where. However, we just can’t run away from it as it’s present everywhere, be it e-mail, blog comments, forum or anything which is online and accepts input from the users.

 [Hire Mrs. Micah -- Blog Consulting, Web Design, Editing, and more...] Must-Have Plugins for Your New Wordpress Blog: That’s why I recommend that every blogger set up a contact page immediately. You can include your e-mail address, but I also suggest including a form for people who don’t happen to have their e-mail open but are already on your contact page.

 [Informed Networker Blog] Akismet Anti-Spam and Points System.: It also receives feedback if users report a story as spam and passes that feedback back to Akismet to help ensure further spam refinements. We still have some spam slipping through - but as we report it we expect the prevalence of spam to decrease significantly.

 [Neat Ten | Your Blog Matters] Do Not Let Akismet Work Alone: It is meant to stop all forms of automated Blog spam effortlessly, while remaining as unobtrusive as possible to regular commentators. Spam Karma 2 is the proud successor to Spam Karma, with whom it shares most of the development ideas, .

 [Reality Me] Spam Karma open source or die die die: Spam Karma puts Akismet and other spam fighting tools to shame. I think in all the time I have been using Spam Karma, I have had only one false positive. I get false negatives on trackbacks but that is because it was only recently that ...

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