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[Hacker News] Hacker News | Ask HN: 2 karma minimum to lock out spam bots: There are actually already spambots that do this on reddit -- they find a highly-voted comment in a reddit thread, follow the link to the article and repost the comment there (filling in the URL they want if the site in question allows it). Unless you look carefully at what people claim as "their site", or happen to read reddit as well, they can be hard to catch.

[3G Inside] 1300 Mods for vBulletin - 3G Inside: e-steki Karma version 2.2 e-steki Profile Stats v1.0.1 e-steki Referrer Statistics e-steki User ModLog v1.1.3 - An alternative to moderation AutoPM. Exclude Forums From external.php.

[Weblog Tools Collection] Plugin Review: WP Mollom | Weblog Tools Collection: Honestly, there is not much I can talk about the effectiveness of the plugin, because testing this requires a few weeks / months before its true results can be seen. However, I am pretty pleased that there is yet another secondary service to Akismet and this one offers a few extra features.

[drupal.org - Post installation] Tag cloud links not working? | drupal.org: Required by: Drigg (enabled), Drigg Approval Queue (disabled), Pligg -> Drigg importer (disabled), Drigg RSS Feeder (enabled), Drigg User Interface (enabled), Extra Voting forms (enabled), User Karma - give votes plugin (enabled), User Karma - give node plugin (enabled), User Karma - votes on comments plugin (enabled), User Karma - votes on nodes plugin (enabled)

[Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings | Posts] Awesome spam filtering for WordPress - Dougal Campbell's geek ...: The plugin filters IP addresses which are registered in the Project Honeypot databases for suspicious activity, spamming, or harvesting. I’m aware of the problems of filtering based on IP, however, the plugin smartly provides an option to check how recently the IP was active, and only block accesses which have shown recent suspicious activity.

[Wordpress by Examples] Wordpress by Examples » Blog Archive » Additional Spam Karma 2 Plugins: Here’s some of the additional plugins I write for Spam Karma that you might find useful to in addition to the default spam karma 2 plugins, the Fishy User Agents and Blacklisted IP Address Checker.

[Comments for Lorelle on WordPress] Battling Comment Spam: Human Versus Human « Lorelle on WordPress: the only way to stop human comment spam is to re-educate. Unfortunately I think that journey of re-education is not going to be easy, simply because there are simply too many money making schemes out there that are set up by not-so-tech-savvy people, who simply want to get their objective of getting another inbound link.

[Tildemark blogs] Adding captcha to comments in Movable type 4 - Tildemark blogs: It also has this slider that automatically blocks suspicious comments having more than 2 links. The problem is if the spam you are to moderate increases to more than 20 a day and of course, you wouldn't want to moderate that number of spam everyday.

[ProBlogger Blog Tips] The Blog Tool that Has Saved Me Months of Work: Let’s assume that if I had to moderate spam comments manually here at ProBlogger that it would take around 2 seconds to do each one (I think it could be more than that as it can take a while to track them all down - I know this because when Akismet’s server has gone down for an hour or so it takes forever).

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