BeatingBroke said:

KNS Financial said:

NarrowBridge said:

I use Akismet with conditional CAPTCHA (only comes up when it thinks you are a spammer) on Disqus. The combination has been working well for me, but I don't have the same level of SPAM that you do.

I use this combination as well with the stock WP commenting system. I get about 150 - 200 spam comments a day, but they all go to the trash folder using this combo. Now I am getting a growing number of spammers who take the time to fill out the captcha code.

KNS, when I say that I was getting 300 a day at times, they were all ending up in the spam comments folder, but with as many of my fellow yakezie who occasionally get stuck in there, I didn't feel comfortable just emptying it.  Now, I get none, so it's much easier to find those few who get caught in the spam folder, and release them.

Wow, that is pretty amazing! I'll have to look into it to see exactly how it works. Do you use it in conjunction with Akismet?

Yep, it runs right alongside Akismet.  Anything that gets through it, has to go through Akismet too.

KNS Financial said:

NarrowBridge said:

I use Akismet with conditional CAPTCHA (only comes up when it thinks you are a spammer) on Disqus. The combination has been working well for me, but I don't have the same level of SPAM that you do.

I use this combination as well with the stock WP commenting system. I get about 150 - 200 spam comments a day, but they all go to the trash folder using this combo. Now I am getting a growing number of spammers who take the time to fill out the captcha code.

KNS, when I say that I was getting 300 a day at times, they were all ending up in the spam comments folder, but with as many of my fellow yakezie who occasionally get stuck in there, I didn't feel comfortable just emptying it.  Now, I get none, so it's much easier to find those few who get caught in the spam folder, and release them.

Wow, that is pretty amazing! I'll have to look into it to see exactly how it works. Do you use it in conjunction with Akismet?

NarrowBridge said:

I use Akismet with conditional CAPTCHA (only comes up when it thinks you are a spammer) on Disqus. The combination has been working well for me, but I don't have the same level of SPAM that you do.

I use this combination as well with the stock WP commenting system. I get about 150 - 200 spam comments a day, but they all go to the trash folder using this combo. Now I am getting a growing number of spammers who take the time to fill out the captcha code.

KNS, when I say that I was getting 300 a day at times, they were all ending up in the spam comments folder, but with as many of my fellow yakezie who occasionally get stuck in there, I didn't feel comfortable just emptying it.  Now, I get none, so it's much easier to find those few who get caught in the spam folder, and release them.

I use Akismet with conditional CAPTCHA (only comes up when it thinks you are a spammer) on Disqus. The combination has been working well for me, but I don't have the same level of SPAM that you do.

I use this combination as well with the stock WP commenting system. I get about 150 - 200 spam comments a day, but they all go to the trash folder using this combo. Now I am getting a growing number of spammers who take the time to fill out the captcha code.

100 spam comments a day...wow.

Yeah.  There were days where the spammers must have been making concentrated efforts and I got close to 300.  Needless to say, getting down to less than 5 a day is pretty freaking spectacular.

askimet and GASP I get about 1 SPAM every 3 days.

The only thing that I don't like about GASP, is that, like Captcha, it requires commenters to do something to verify themselves.  With this plugin, there's no extra step to get a comment approved.  Which doesn't take into account false positives, but so far, I haven't had any that have been reported, so don't know how much of an issue that is.

It uses a few services to check against a blacklist.  If the commenter matches that blacklist, they don't even get so far as putting a comment in.  I haven't had any reported false positives, but I'm sure it's not perfect.  In any case, it does seem to have worked rather well.

The name of it is AVH First Defense Against Spam

p.s. it's a wordpress plugin, so those of you without wordpress will be out of luck.  sorry. ;)