How To Stop Comment Spam In Wordpress?

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    How To Stop Comment Spam In Wordpress? this question need some consideration, because of growing concern of comment spam in WordPress blogggers. So, proper Comment Spam Management plug-in for our Wordpress blog is necessary.
    What do you think? And Which plug-in is better in this regard?
    Please leave your answer!
     
    espreson, Dec 1, 2007 IP
  2. Richie_Ni

    Richie_Ni Illustrious Member

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  3. izeaus

    izeaus Banned

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    Ya Askimet is best plugin available .. but you need to have a wordpress account .. It reduces spam
     
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    shashank4u Active Member

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    Akismet and Defensio are the best.
     
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    fgs Peon

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    I LOVE DP!

    i was just about to post on here for a comment spam for wordpress and little do i know it is the first available thread!!!!!
     
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    Askimet is a must. I heard of Defensio but did not tried it.
     
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  7. espreson

    espreson Peon

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    What about Defensio?
    Is it better than Akismet?
    Please feedback!
     
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    fgs Peon

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    Just installed akismet....

    would it do any harm to install both!?

    wouldnt it just be that both will filter the comments, so that if first one doesn't catch it the second one will, and vice versa... thus resulting in super duper spam protection?
     
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    lpstong Notable Member

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    I have both Akismet and Spam Karma 2 settings. I really love Spam Karma. It really does the job.
     
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    bbrian017 Well-Known Member

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    I would suggest just turning one moderation for new posts. Best of luck with that :(
     
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    Akismet is quite good. Turning on the moderation alone might not be sufficient.
     
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    Akismet is the best one we've tried. Depending on the type of blog and the numbers of comments a day, you may also want to enable other spam rules that come with wordpress.
     
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    yeah but if you 100 spam comments a day or more and dont moderate them for a while then you have 1000s of spam comments and its just too big of a hassle.....

    hmm, I will add spam karma 2 as well, thanks for the suggestion , don't see it doing any harm :)
     
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    I only wish I could experience this LOL.

    I didn't think about that as I rarely get spam comments :)

    News blogs that's why :)
     
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    Spam Karma 2 definitely helps kill the mass spam. I have my blog ping my email each time I get a comment in moderation and with some tweaking on part of Spam Karma kills alot of the repeat offenders. I like it alot better than askimet. But I use both. What askimet does not get Karma will.... He, he.
     
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