WordPress “Anti-Spam Image” Plugin
After having installed a couple of blog spam quarantine solutions, I finally decided it’s time to stop the spam bots to even have a chance to waste the server resource. So I went ahead and installed Anti-Spam Image plugin. Don’t get me wrong, I think Sebastian’s advise to install Spam Karma was an excellet idea (I only wished I’d listened sooner), but I hate the fact that those spam messages even got a chance to live in the database and waste my server’s resource to process them… Hopefully Anti-Spam Image will at least cut down on the spams from spam bots so that I can just deal with the less annoying spams manually…
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April 15th, 2006 at 1:13 pm
Hmm, I’m not sure I like these Captha-thingies.
For two reasons: First, spam countermeasures should not interfere with the normal process of commenting. It holds people back and makes them feel stupid. Which brings me to my second point: In most cases, I have trouble to read the stuff myself. I don’t know why, but many times the pictures were hard to read and I had to retry it several times – getting more and more annoyed by it of course.
I still use Spam Karma and I’m quite happy with it. The consensus, however, seems to be that Akismet works best. Especially if you put every comment on an post older than two weeks in moderation. 99 percent of the visitors don’t comment on old posts, and 99 percent of the spammers don’t comment on your latest posts – in my experience at least.
Ups, sorry for the long rant…
April 19th, 2006 at 7:03 am
Okay, I used the Captha-word-verification on your site, and it works. So I’m fine with it
April 19th, 2006 at 11:00 am
I didn’t understand why people used them until I had my own site spammed with crazy stuff on a daily basis. Fortunately Spam Karma has caught much of the dumb spams.
I was going to use Akismet. But then it requires this key that I can only get if I signed up a free blog account with WordPress.com. I didn’t bother…