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12:35 pm
February 10, 2012
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One Frugal Girl
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Can any of you who use wordpress provide insight on the best anti-spam plugins and your success with them. After moving my blog from blogger to wordpress I was inundated with 156 spam comments last night. For now I installed the Captcha plugin, which requires you to solve a math problem, but I was wondering if anyone had other plugins they loved. Thanks in advance.
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1:26 pm
February 10, 2012
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sooverthis
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I love the Disqus commenting system. Some people hate it – many workplaces disable it, for example – but I have only had 2 spam comments since I started using it last April. I get emails when someone includes a link in a comment, and I can reply to the email to approve or trash it. I can also respond directly to the emails to reply to the comments, which I love.
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1:43 pm
February 10, 2012
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Edward Antrobus
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I haven't had any problems with Akismet.
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4:25 pm
February 10, 2012
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AmericanDebtProject
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Same here, Akismet is very good for my blog, but sometimes real comments get caught in there. I try to go in and check the spam folder every couple weeks. At least 2-3 comments from real people will be idling in there!
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9:01 am
February 11, 2012
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LaTisha @YoungFinances
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Get the checkbox.
It's called the GASP plugin. Basically it just adds a checkbox for commenters to confirm that they are human. It cut down on my spam dramatically.
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9:42 am
February 11, 2012
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Smart Wealth
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I agree with LaTisha, I have the same plugin and it works pretty good, you still get some here and there but not as many as you would without it
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2:33 pm
February 11, 2012
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Edward Antrobus
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I've noticed that checkbox plugin has been pretty popular lately. Now, I don't know if this is just be being stupid, but a good percentage of the time, I forget to check it and get yelled at. It's kind of like the math problem for posting on this forum. At the end of the day, it winds up being a PITA for humans.
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I'm looking for editors, beta-readers, and some demographic research for my upcoming novel, Once Upon a Saturn Moon. If you like reading soft sci-fi thrillers, maybe with a touch of romance thrown in, you can find more information at http://seampublishing.com/once…..aturn-moon
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SEAM Publishing – http://www.seampublishing.com | eBook formatting and publishing service
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2:37 pm
February 11, 2012
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One Frugal Girl
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Thanks for the suggestions. I will look into both Askimet and GASP. I'm not a big fan of Disqus though I'm not ruling out any options yet. 180+ spam messages weren't fun to route through!
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7:56 pm
February 11, 2012
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BeatingBroke
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I feel the same way about the checkbox and most captchas. They're a PITA for the ones they're supposed to be letting through. I've been using a plugin called AVH and it's done wonders. It filters based on IP address. Using a blacklist from StopForumSpam, if the IP address is on the blacklist, it prevents the commenter from leaving a comment. My spam levels have gone down dramatically. I've been using it a little over a year, and I've had 2 false positives. They're easy to fix, just add the IP to a whitelist.
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6:19 am
February 12, 2012
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Glen Craig
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I use WP SpamFree. It's a bit of resource hog but it blocks a lot of spam. You don't even see it in your spam folder.
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8:50 am
February 12, 2012
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OneCentAtatime
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sooverdebt said:
I love the Disqus commenting system. Some people hate it – many workplaces disable it, for example – but I have only had 2 spam comments since I started using it last April. I get emails when someone includes a link in a comment, and I can reply to the email to approve or trash it. I can also respond directly to the emails to reply to the comments, which I love.
Yes, I hate it and my workplace ban it. Many yakezie blogs remains un commented because I can't comment on them
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11:58 am
February 12, 2012
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LaTisha @YoungFinances
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I used to use WP spam free but then I noticed that I had regular comments that were getting 'blocked'. You can't go through and filter for legit comments.
Glen Craig – Free From Broke said:
I use WP SpamFree. It's a bit of resource hog but it blocks a lot of spam. You don't even see it in your spam folder.
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1:29 pm
February 13, 2012
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Eric – PersonalProfitability.com
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I use Akismet + Conditional CAPTCHA. If someone is marked as spam by Akismet, Conditional CAPTCHA gives them a second chance. If you are not caught by Akismet, you don't get the CAPTCHA.
I also use it with Disqus, which I think ads a great touch.
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