Comments on: Fight the spammers

By: Web Marketing Services - Professional Internet Marketing by SEO Prodigy

Web Marketing Services - Professional Internet Marketing by SEO Prodigy — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:43:32 +0000

Blogs being spammed?…

I hate it when people find ways to spam useful tools and content. Blogs are immensely popular these days, and wordpress and blogger are just a few examples of good free blogging interfaces. Due to the popularity of the blogs, Google and other search en…

By: Renzo

Renzo — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:51:10 +0000

Akismet is working so far for me. I do not know why would you need to create a “number” in wordpress.com.

By: Gaya

Gaya — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:19:02 +0000

oh right, the default image… think I’ll just unshow them =P

By: Marco

Marco — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:14:52 +0000

I agree with Pim.

Akismet stops automated scripts, but also stops “regular comments” (called ham) that have an URL.

Also, it doesn’t stop comment from actual people that contain only smileys.

Other than that, it works fine. Great service that I’m using too :) .

Ps. @Gaya:
Change the default Gravatar image.

By: Gaya

Gaya — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:52:41 +0000

It works fine for me. Spam doesn’t seem to be getting the best of me anymore. The script has matured very much!

By: Pim

Pim — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 09:43:45 +0000

Akismet is nice, not flawless though. Installed it before but some stuff kept coming through. On the other hand, it did filter quite a bit.