[spam-stopper] New plugin version

Sebastian Herp newsletter at scytheman.net
Tue Oct 17 13:52:39 UTC 2006


Roland Haeder wrote:
>> I am using Akismet together with Spam Karma (via sk-plugin). While I
>> think the combination of both is near perfect for fighting spam, but
>> there are still many (most) people out there using only Akismet. Don't
>> get me wrong ... Akismet alone works pretty well, but sometimes it flags
>> comments as spam which are cleary ham and the way around.
>>     
> Akismet is a content filter, not a all-in-one filter. Spam attacks can be 
> stopped in many ways:
>
> - ...
Can there be more than one anti-spam plugin in Wordpress? In my 
understanding the plugin that processes a comment last always wins 
(meaning decides if it is spam or not) ... so if I'm going to use only 
Akismet I want Akismet to do some sanity checking before it flags 
something as spam that is most likely not spam. Registered users are not 
spamers!!!

> I have also a commenter here who got always blacklisted by SK2. Well, for my 
> blog I don't have so much spams. :-) But I already saw a blog with tons of 
> spams. :-(
>   
Akismet reports on it's website that 92% of all comments are spam ... 
that's also the case on my blog.

> Hmmm, you may give your regular posters unlimited posting capabilities but 
> what about a splog owner who registers with your blog? It might be an idea to 
> implement a way of automatic gray/white-listing here:
> ...
>   
Registration is deactivated on my blog ... but I can see the problem 
here ... well, what I am talking about is blocking my own comments or 
comments of co-bloggers ... it should not be neccessary to even check 
those comments against spamlists, right? Maybe Wordpress can have an 
option "do not moderate/flag as spam comments from registered users" in 
it's option panel (if Akismet does not implement this simple check)?

OR (big big OR):

Wordpress implements a system like Spam Karma 2 is using ... let 
different plugins give their opinion about a comment and than decide if 
it is spam or not.



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