Comments on: Blocking Spam – It’s Not Rocket Science

By: Internet Marketing

Internet Marketing — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:34:48 +0000

Never heard of that plugin. Will try it out on some of my new blogs.

By: Sucker

Sucker — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:59:41 +0000

Thanks SEO! I try to stand out from the crowd

By: SEO

SEO — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:32:34 +0000

I’m definitely going to give it a try. By the way your blog is from the very few original blogs in the niche. Keep it up!

By: Jason Pearson

Jason Pearson — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:41:52 +0000

Hey thanks for posting this. I have noticed several of these questions when commenting on blogs. I hope don’t get any harder than simple addition–I am so bad at math–even worse at physics! Let’s hope your prediction does NOT come true!

By: iDope

iDope — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:10:37 +0000

Its all a matter of volume. I dont want to spend every minute of my day checking for spam. Akismet works okay for me but lets through couple of spam frequently (especially the ones without links). And I hate captchas, I will never put one on my blog. So I wrote a plugin to block comment spam without resorting to captchas called WP Captcha-Free (Sorry for the shameless plug, I hope you dont take this as comment spam ). It uses a combination of time based hash and ajax to block spam (or atleast ensure the comment was manually posted). Like WP-SpamFree it uses javascript but the time-based hash (also known as Tima Based Tokens, TBT) adds another barrier. I use it myself of both my blogs and now get zero spam from an earlier 40+ per day. This doesn’t replace Akismet but does complement it very well. You can check it out at http://wordpresssupplies.com/wordpress-plugins/captcha-free/

Let me know what you think of it!

By: Big Oak

Big Oak — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:02:46 +0000

Thanks for blogging about this. I’m been looking for a better solution than Akismet.

By: kolyan

kolyan — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:15:45 +0000

I also never heard about plugin. I’m going to try it. Thanks for information!!!))))))))))))

By: Gurus Lab

Gurus Lab — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:44:28 +0000

Haven’t tried this particular plug-in so installing now.. thanks for the informative (and very useful) post

By: Funny Stuff

Funny Stuff — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:09:35 +0000

This is the first time I heard of this plugin. Thanks for heads up. I’m gonna test it out.

By: Sucker

Sucker — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:38:27 +0000

Good point Dean. I’m sure there are plenty of people who refuse to leave comments if they have to enter a captcha, so it’s a trade off.

Just today I saw a question “Who is buried in Grant’s tomb?” as part of the commenting process. Last time I heard that (years ago,) it was considered a riddle, and a lot of people over-think it and can’t get an answer.

Can you imagine trying to figure out a riddle when you want to leave a comment?