Yesterday was a comment spam watershed for me. Overnight I received hundreds of new comment spams, despite the captcha I had implemented a week ago. While speaking at the OCRI partnership series yesterday morning, hundreds more were posted. Somehow the spammers have defeated it.Â
I got back to my office at about 2 in the afternoon yesterday, and activated Akismet, which is the new WordPress comment spam filter that’s in WordPress 2.0. In order to do so, I had to go get a WordPress.com account, and API key, which took a few minutes, but after that it’s been clear sailing. Since late yesterday afternoon, Akismet has trapped 435 new spam comments.Â
The best thing about Akismet? It traps the comment spam without making legitimate commenters jump through hoops. Kudos to Matt and his team.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
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I've never used Askimet myself. I've used Spam Karma 2.0 for a long time now. Hope Askimet solves that problem. Comment spam is such a pain to deal with. If they find another way around, Spam Karma seems to let about 1 in 500 through, but does a real good job.
I've never tried Spam Karma, Ken. But so far, Akismet looks good.
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