[spam-stopper] New plugin version

Sebastian Herp newsletter at scytheman.net
Thu Oct 19 10:07:16 UTC 2006


Matt Mullenweg wrote:
> Sebastian Herp wrote:
>> An relatively easy way to further enhance Akismet (if in the use 
>> without Spam Karma) would be to never ever flag (or even check) a 
>> comment as spam if it was written by a registered user!
>
> We used to do this a few months ago on the server-side. Spammers 
> figured it out, and it was badly exploited, and I'll leave it at that. 
> Do you really want your blog's registration system to become a bot 
> target?
>
Hi Matt,

does server-side mean "on Akismets server-side" or "on the blogs 
server-side"? If done by the plugin or the wordpress installation itself 
(e.g. "if registered_user() then don't check against Akismet"), how 
could that be abused?

It's just that I have seen it twice that Akismet flagged one of my own 
comments as spam ... I am the author of my blog, so that should never 
happen, should it?



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