Targeting Spam: Wordpress anti-spam plugin: Use Spam Karma

Targeting Spam > Wordpress anti-spam plugin: Use Spam Karma

[Make Money from Blogs] Dealing with spam can be quite a pain for owners of Wordpress blogs. If you have an active blog, sooner or later you will have to start dealing with the fact that there are various ways to generate spam, and you have to deal with this spam.

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[Bamboric In Malawi] Today « Bamboric In Malawi: Karma goes with you all the way, every step, every breath. Good luck to you John, may you have a very good and full life.

[Quick Online Tips] Spam Karma 2 + Akismet + Bad Behaviour 2 : Despam Wordpress: It’s extreme overkill, and needs only to be implemented if you really have a major spam problem. To implement this, all you have to do is to install Spam Karma 2, Akismet, the SK2+Akismet integration plugin (the one right above this), as well as Bad Behaviour 2.

[Performancing] Real Comments, Spam URL's : Performancing: I have the same issue on my blogs and if someone is providing any sort of interesting content, I allow it with their “SPAM”. I consider it the price (actually, free) I pay for the content and to generate discussion among my commentors.

[Lorelle on WordPress] The Attack of the Spam-Bots from Hell « Lorelle on WordPress: Things will change if real coders start taking an interest in this no-doubt very lucrative market and starts churning out efficient spambots program to the spam monkeys. And do not doubt a second there aren’t or won’t be such black hat developers in this market (the same way there are in other domain of internet spam)”¦ Even if Mark Pilgrim was slightly off the mark in his apocalyptic sum-up of the situation, he was certainly right on one point: there is huge money involved, certainly enough to pay the hourly services of a decent professional coder”¦ perhaps even [cue ominous strings on the soundtrack]: of a coder already involved in the blogging community.

[Game/AI] Game/AI: Dealing with spam?: I took the liberty of closing the comment sections on all the old posts, since they were getting seriously clogged with spam. I also tried mass deleting of spam on a couple of posts, but I think the ridiculous volume of spam overloaded things since it gives an internal error when "rebuilding" the files for the site.

[Computer Realm] Giving Spam Karma a go | Computer Realm: It has features such as the Blacklist (where comments are compared to blacklist servers which keeps tabs on blacklisted URL’s and IP’s based on entries of blocked IP’s and Domains added by other users of the plugin), link counter (wordpress has a built-in feature for this but still), stopwatch (which prevents automated spam as it makes sure that comments that have been made by visitors in too short a time are filtered), the ’snowball effect’ (which is based on how loyal the commenter has been) and plenty more.

[The WYSIWYG* Blog] Putting Out the Welcome Matt « The WYSIWYG* Blog: Seems the long weekends bring out a rash of new users trying their hand at starting a blog on WordPress.COM. I thought I’d repeat here what I’ve posted previously in the forums and in the odd mail that shows up from people using my contact form.

[Bamboric In Malawi] This bit is also on NaBloPoMo. « Bamboric In Malawi: Karma follow you every second of your day and night, and Karma will manifest itself when you least expect. The wheel turns, and what goes around comes around.

[Caroline Middlebrook] Just a Quick Note About Blog Comments - Again | Caroline Middlebrook: Although I think everyone’s goal should be to provide helpful and insightful comments, I am also aware that blog commenting is also a great way to build links. No one should resort to spamming (*ugh*) but since I’ve used this method (”Name @Keyword”

[Portagemma Web Design CMS Web Hosting] Portagemma Web Design CMS Web Hosting » Wordpress Plugin - Spam ...: Spam Karma 2.2 helps stop comment and track back spam on your blog (or in the case of Content Management System on your news, updates or blog section of the website).

[The Preston Blog] Spam Karma 2 Internet Marketing for Internet Retail : The Preston Blog: […] If there is one thing I hate more than anything else about blogging it is dealing with comment spam. I have taken a few tips and tried out Spam Karma 2, but until consulting for a small website recently I did not realize how bad blog spam can be for the company doing it.

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Targeting Spam > Wordpress anti-spam plugin: Use Spam Karma

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