Comments on: Problems with Akismet anti-spam: update

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:59:24 +0000

A final word on Akismet:

It’s giving me a few problems but it’s a great app. It’s saved me all kinds of agro and these current difficulties notwithstanding, it does a better than good job of killing spam.

Trolls are just an unfortunate fact of life, like spam.

Cheers!

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:53:12 +0000

That’s not how Akismet works at all — you can’t get people banned like that. The system is now 4 years old and maintains over a 99.9% accuracy rate. You don’t stay that high by crude blacklisting methods!

By: bl

bl — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:45:28 +0000

On SK2 a very handy plugin is the moderation plugin which will enforce the commentator must have a previously approved comment…

Moderate – Strength: – Author: Peter Westwood – Version: 0.75 beta [@] [?]
Forces comment moderation based on settings in WordPress admin panel. Enforces the following settings:

* An administrator must approve the comment (regardless of any matches below)
* Comment author must have a previously approved comment

http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/wordpress/sk2-moderate-plugin/

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:45:43 +0000

PHK!!!!

Even THAT’S wrong.

“â¦computer bounceS back …”

(Throws dog downstairs and kicks wall, breaking toe)

Cheers!

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:42:35 +0000

I BEG your pardon! (Kicks cat again – cat bites ankle, causing deep puncture wounds).

It should, of course, be, ” …computer bounced back and breaks MY nose.”"

(Storms out of the room and falls down stairs.)

Cheers!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:40:05 +0000

seems to be a delay now. weird

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:38:41 +0000

You’re computer has a nose!

oh my…

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:36:20 +0000

DAMN!

I switched it off again.

Back to the drawing board.

Kicks cat, throws computer at wall, computer bounced back and breaks nose.

Cheers!

By: cant post

cant post — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:27:56 +0000

I still can’t post.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:50:24 +0000

nope. Doesn’t work.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:50:09 +0000

This is my 4th anon posting test

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:49:22 +0000

testing 123 test

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:17:16 +0000

Iâve had to turn it off – itâs flagging just about everything, including the post above.

Obviously needs more work from me, although I thought Iâd tuned it carefully.

Cheers!

UPDATE Back on, but hopefully less demanding

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:09:22 +0000

I just got this. Just before this new article pop’d up:

Submitted comment 968920 to Akismet.com as spam (Akismet said it’s ham)

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/htdocs/p2pnet.net/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/SK2/sk2_util_class.php:208) in /var/www/htdocs/p2pnet.net/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/SK2/spam_karma_2_plugin.php on line 1034
Sorry, but your comment has been flagged by the spam filter running on this blog: this might be an error, in which case all apologies. Your comment will be presented to the blog admin who will be able to restore it immediately.
You may want to contact the blog admin via e-mail to notify him.