Dec 10 2006
Switching To Akismet For Anti-Spam
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Well it didn’t last long. You may remember at the end of October I switched to the math comment spam protection system. Unfortunately for the last two weeks I have been waking up to about 100 spam comments which must be smart enough to do basic math.
So now I try Askismet to protect myself from Spam, which I hear is very good. In case you didn’t know, Akismet comes preinstalled in WordPress 2.0 and if you need help to get it going you can follow this screencast video thanks to Tubetorial.
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[...] to give Akismet a shot. The jury is still out, and the rumors are that its effective, yet somewhat brutish. (not like i get any legitimate comments here [...]
Well, I have to admit, you did a great job with the math question. I never saw any spam here.
I use akismet on one of my blogs and sometimes it traps legitimate comments. I guess that’s the price you pay.
Good luck with Askimet. I tried it on my blogs and it did not work well. I still got around 500 comment spams per day. I am now using the latest edition of Spam Karma, which incorporates Askimet, and it is great. I get maybe 5 or 6 comment spams per day now.
Hi Yaro,
Thought I might let you know about a spam-counter that I use on my site in conjunction with Askimet. It seems to have stopped most of the automated spam adverts that were getting though askimet.
http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2005/10/23/wordpress-hashcash-30-beta/
I was already at the point to shutdown comments because of fu***** spammers. But when I upgraded my blog to WP 2.0 and started using Aksimet all spam comments disappeared.
To be honest I don’t why you didn’t use Akismet in the first place. Whilst they do sometimes trap legit comments and let through some dodgy ones – they are better than most forms of spam prevention.
I tried Spam Karma also for a bit but found the options to confusing! Good luck with this method.
I had a dormant blog that never saw much traffic yet got buckets of spam each day. Askimet seems to have taken care of it. Now that I am getting back to blogging again, I am using Askime in WP2. Not sure how it will work for me, but I am hoping it does the job it claims it can do.
There is a new version of Askimet 1.2.1 Make sure that you download this latest version. There were some problems lately with the previous versions.
Also today I noticed the first comment that ended up in the SPam basket.
It was easily corrected but now I know that I need to check my spam basket carefully before I hit delete.
Also I use Akismet and Spam Karma side-by-side. No Problems there.
I use Aksimet only because it is the default for WP but seems to work fine. You do need to go in and make sure a valid comment didn’t get stuck though but better than deleting spam that got through.
I use Akismet along with the worst offenders version of it. He is working on a seperate plugin that goes along with akismet, but I am still using the modified version of akismet that has worst offenders integrated along with it. It makes looking for the rare legit comment that gets marked as spam easier by taking out the ones submitted from the same place 4 or 5+ times.
If I see an IP address continually spamming me, then I deny that IP from accessing my website. Spam usually dies down for a week or two when I do that.
The akismet 1.5.1 version: http://boakes.org/akismet-worst-offenders/
Forum topic with latest updates: http://boakes.org/talk/topic/27
I have been using Spam Karma2 for over 7 months now, and I must say, I haven’t had to look for an alternate solution ever since. I would give it 2-thumbs up … sure worth a try !
Thanks for all the suggestions regarding the different spam tools everyone.
I’ve decided to try a few different combinations along with Akismet to see what works best.
Math comment was very good although some spam snuck through. I’m currently testing math comment combined with Akisment to see how that goes.
I’m a bit worried about Spam Karma because I think it may have eaten a few too many legitimate comments in the past.
Yaro
Hi Yaro,
I started getting spam two weeks after I started my blog. It was so bad I couldn’t even look at my blog at work due to the filth that the spam was pushing.
I implemented Akismet that night and have been pretty much spam free for the last three months. Akismet has so far caught over three thousand spams, and only two or three valid comments in the three months of operation. A quick look through the list of captured messages lets me check for valid comments.
I am absolutely rapt with Akismet. I was a little dubious at first, but I’d heartily recommend it.
Hello, at these days Im looking for some system like Wordpress or Drupal and also I will need to defend against spam. I prepare some project in spanish language. I think Im going to use Drupal, hope Akismet works with Drupal. Im going to read next articles here about Akismet. R.
I’ve been using akismet on my WP blog quite a while now, and i’ve had 0, yes 0 spams since then.
or well. it still grabs the spam so i can see it before i delete it, if i want. But honestly i just push delete :O i have faith in akismet.
Never seen it grab something that wasnt spam yet
> it still grabs the spam so i can see it before i delete it, if
> i want. But honestly i just push delete :O i have faith in akismet.
>
> Never seen it grab something that wasnt spam yet
Well, if you just push delete, of course you have never seen grabbing something is not spam. That doesn’t mean that there wasn’t, just that you don’t look!
Unfortunately I am one of the poor guys which akismet grab by mistake
I’m using Akismet and it’s working well. In the last couple of days I’ve started getting a lot of ‘Test Comment’ appear on my blog. Anyone else getting this?
I’ve just started having the same issue, the spambots have wised up. I want to install (ok, activate) Akismet on my blog, but they seem to want $50 a month (!) for it because it’s commercial (I’m a locksmith). For that money, I’ll delete the spam by hand. I’m hoping they will let me go with the $5 a month option, but we will see.
I’ve recently started to get spam on my blog which is passing through Akismet. Strange, nonsensical comments like “How green is the grass on the other side of the fence? Not much. Don\’t believe it I tell you. Jerry” The web address is richsgreengrass dot info or variations thereof. I’ve acually been able to trace the registrant of this URL via the UK’s domain names registration body. It’s a California address complete with phone number and email address! My questions are: is anyone else getting spam like this, and is there a body in the US I can report this person to? Thanks.
Hi Sheelagh – Don’t be so sure your tracing is actually finding the real culprit, it could all be spoofed.
Akismet is always learning so I suggest you mark the comment as spam and eventually comments like that will not get through. Of course there will always be some form of spam comment that makes it through, I don’t think there is a perfect solution to spam because of the nature of the source – people.
Hi Yaro, thanks very much for your feedback. I’ll mark these comments as spam. Sheelagh
The older version of Akismet is not very efficient. I like the newest version much better.
How has it been working out overall for you?
Akismet has been great so far!
Yeah I’m a big fan of akismet too, working very well to date
Akismet is a Godsend. Though my site doesn’t see much activity, it’s already blocked plenty of spam I would otherwise have had to weed out by hand. The PHP class is super easy to implement in non-Wordpress software.
So you are planning to use Akismet, I suggest you should look if you have other better options available, because I myself have tried the previous version of Akisment and it had many flaws in it. So even if the newer version is an improved one, still I believe there will be some loopholes exist in it. For better Anti-Spamming solutions I suggest you should visit Anti-Spamming Website
You can’t go wrong with Akismet. I’ve always used it, and it keeps my unwanted comments down to practically zero. If only I could get it to work for my email
Basic math shouldn’t be a problem for a machine .. Akismet is great. You could combine it with other spam protection tools, than you will be 99,9% spam free.
Askimet is pretty good, but i figure if people gonna spam you can’t stop them. But if your blog is worth protecting then I’d still do manual editing. Good luck with it though, I like it!
could I get more information about akismet for anti spam via my email, I just new to use wordpress, actually I used dreamweaver and mean to change it to wordpress. Thanks for awesome information
Akismet is ok but you have to use a combination of tools to be spam free.
To be honest I don’t why you didn’t use Akismet in the first place. Whilst they do sometimes trap legit comments and let through some dodgy ones – they are better than most forms of spam prevention.
To be honest I don’t why you didn’t use Akismet in the first place. Whilst they do sometimes trap legit comments and let through some dodgy ones – they are better than most forms of spam prevention.
It’s very good but other people can sabotage your site or blog so you won’t be able to make comments. My other site was caught by akismet as false positive.
Spam is definately a big problem on my forum. There is so much spam that certain sections of the forum must be deleted and then recreated. I’m speaking of 6 or 7 thousand spam posts a month. What about my blog?
Iv’e gotten some spam trackbacks on my blog but it’s not a problem. Why? Nobody has posted spam comments and there aren’t too many spam trackbacks. Ironically, my blog has high page rank so you would assume there would be some spam comments. What is the main reason why my blog’s spam is easier to manage?
The forum’s comments have to be deleted one by one while I can delete blog comments and trackbacks rather easily.
To be honest it doesn’t appear akismet is working on your blog, Yaro. I see adnan’s comment was scraped by sex shop and ruya tabirleri. So it appears akismet lets duplicate content appear in a thread, indeed even in consecutive comments.
Akismet seems cool, spammers do my head in. Had to put CAPTCHA’s on all the forms on my website because I get emails literally full of gibberish, i don’t understand it. Well good luck tacking your problems.
Akismet is a joke service. My comments are flagged as “spam” . Funny thing is i never ever entered any website info when i am commenting. I have dynamic IP and changing IP address doesnt work. And i live in a city with 6 million population. I think they banned entire city IP addresses. I am asking to akismet to put a live “false spam marked” counter. Akismet is the worst spam protection addon for wordpress.
Funny thing is … the spammers have succeeded right here, in this list of comments I see one which is a copy of a legit message only it has ’sex shop’ as the URL…. sneaky.