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WordPress, Akismet, and still the spam prevails

Posted on 23/5/2006, 11:01 pm, by Colin Charles, under General.

I find it interesting that WordPress with the Akismet plugin (yes, I upgraded my blog to run the latest WordPress a while back) is still allowing spam thru. To make it even funnier, my wordpress.com account has also received spam that Akismet didn’t catch. Maybe its not working as planned then.

It seems that the Akismet API is fairly open, which is interesting. Requests for integration with MediaWiki, can be fairly interesting. MediaWiki’s own methods of spam protection don’t seem to go very far, as edits still tend to need patrolling (I subscribe to the RSS feed of changes which seems to make a lot of sense).

Now to decide to go back to patrolling blog comments or just turning the feature off. How do other WordPress users deal with spam?

4 Comments

  1. spoonfork says:
    24/5/2006 at 2:10 am

    i’ve been using spam karma for over a year now, and i has been great! no more spams, and no false positives (so far)

  2. Eitch says:
    24/5/2006 at 7:50 am

    I currently use WordPress and manually mark spam as spam, as I should approve every comment in my blog :-) It’s a lot of work, but with time spams are getting less frequent.

    I still have to find a more intelligent solution :P

  3. LcF says:
    25/5/2006 at 8:10 am

    there were akismet system errors. I am using Akismet for my high traffic blog without problem. I am using a pro-blogger license.

  4. Eitch says:
    6/10/2009 at 12:15 am

    I currently use WordPress and manually mark spam as spam, as I should approve every comment in my blog :-) It's a lot of work, but with time spams are getting less frequent.

    I still have to find a more intelligent solution :P

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