Comments on: Best Spam Blocker Still Kicking Ass

By: Gravity

Gravity — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:32:27 +0000

lol, was trying to help test your spam filter

By: Hackadelic

Hackadelic — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:22:55 +0000

Haha that’s funny!

That’s not how the blocker works though.

But thanks for the reference (which I deleted for child-welfare)

By: Gravity

Gravity — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:23:47 +0000

this is a spam test, sell BEEP, sell BEEP, gimme BEEP. http://youBEEP.com [moderator remark: this comment was heavily censored]

By: Ipstenu

Ipstenu — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:27:22 +0000

I mean that every post I make gets flagged as ‘This post is held for moderation’.

In a perfect world, after a post (or two) you’d see ‘This Ipstenu chick isn’t a damn dirty spammer!’ and my comments would always appear without the need to approve on your end. But no, it’s not a spam blocker problem, really.

My desires are:
1) Spammers are
1a) blocked from commenting at all or
1b) caught if they manage to comment

2) Real people don’t have to wait for me to step in for them to have a conversation

Right now, I’m running the http:BL WordPress Plugin and Akismet. I like the http:BL one since it logs whomever it catches, and is sort of a low-end version of bad-Behavior. I may go back to BB eventually, even though it doesn’t work so great with WP-Super-Cache (and I need that to not die when I get hammered with traffic on Thursdays).

I set up my prefs to only moderate the first comment, and that seems to help somewhat.

By: Hackadelic

Hackadelic — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:17:38 +0000

My Akismet (almost) never filtered legitimate comments. There were a few at the beginning, and even fewer later on. That’s why it was so hard to go through several hundred spam entries to perhaps find the one or two false positives.

I can’t tell how Akismet works right now though – it hardly ever gets a chance to do its job!

What did you mean by “I’m moderated here”? Were you told your comment was spam? Can you describe/reproduce the conditions?

I’m very much interested in your feedback on this, as it could be a sign of potential for false positives in my spam blocker.

By: Ipstenu

Ipstenu — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:06:01 +0000

Er … and that’s why I’d like to see/try your plugin

Hit enter too soon (and amusingly, I’m moderated here…)

By: Ipstenu

Ipstenu — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:05:31 +0000

Ah, we’re on the same page there, then. I get about half my posters moderated right now, and as a spam filter, it’s working fine. I don’t get a huge number of comments, and combined with Akismit, it’s okay.

That said, I’m not sure if the ones being flagged as spam are being caught by NoSpamX or Akismit, so the efficacy is iffy.

By: Hackadelic

Hackadelic — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:18:07 +0000

Exactly why it didn’t work for me. The “moderated” legit comments are clearly false positives. With false positives I couldn’t use the blocking feature. I could only use the thing as a spam filter, which defeats the (only) purpose to use a spam blocker – to relieve me of the burden to manually check tons of entries in the spam queue.

In my last comment I phrased it wrongly. I mean it either blocked real comments (in blocking mode), or there was definitely too much in my spam queue to check. A condition between a rock and a hard place…

By: Ipstenu

Ipstenu — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:21:28 +0000

It hasn’t let any spam in that I’ve seen. Everything ‘moderated’ is a legit comment, 99.9999% of the spam-flagged is spam.

By: Hackadelic

Hackadelic — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:18:44 +0000

To me NoSpamX was of no use. It either blocked real commenters, or left too much spam in.