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9:49 am
April 16, 2011
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I have been getting a crazy amount of SPAM comments in the past week and I have no idea why all of a sudden. I was getting a couple a week before, now Im getting about 20 a day! It's getting annoying seeing them all the time. Im getting a lot from "buy tramadol" and "pills natural" and "five finger shoes"… they seem to be sending about 5 at a time.
Have any of you experienced this at all?
Do you have a solution for how to taper it off a little?
I have captcha for my comments, but it doesnt seem to be helping enough.
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11:01 am
April 16, 2011
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Sustainable PF
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askimet plugin should clear it up
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1:18 pm
April 16, 2011
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The check box for comment plugin is superb. I just started using it after SPF's recommendation and couldn't be happier.
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4:27 pm
April 16, 2011
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My Personal Finance Journey
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I use IntenseDebate as my commenting system, and it has a spam blocker built in. I bet there is some kind of application built in to the Wordpress commenting system that you can use!
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5:05 pm
April 16, 2011
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I use akismet and conditionl CAPTCHA. This has taken care of all my spam comments.
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5:06 pm
April 16, 2011
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Sustainable PF
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JT_McGee said:
The check box for comment plugin is superb. I just started using it after SPF's recommendation and couldn't be happier.
GASP owns, period. I will never make my readers suffer with word/number captcha.
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5:56 pm
April 16, 2011
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dmateer25 said:
I use akismet and conditionl CAPTCHA. This has taken care of all my spam comments.
This is the combo I use too. It gives real bloggers a chance for Akismet not to eat them accidentally and the spammers fail. I love it!
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6:20 pm
April 16, 2011
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Budgeting in the Fun Stuff
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dmateer25 said:
I use akismet and conditionl CAPTCHA. This has taken care of all my spam comments.
This is the combo I use too. It gives real bloggers a chance for Akismet not to eat them accidentally and the spammers fail. I love it!
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6:43 pm
April 16, 2011
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Sustainable PF
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Budgeting in the Fun Stuff said:
dmateer25 said:
I use akismet and conditionl CAPTCHA. This has taken care of all my spam comments.
This is the combo I use too. It gives real bloggers a chance for Akismet not to eat them accidentally and the spammers fail. I love it!
Have you checked out GASP on our site Crystal? While it's cool you don't comment on our site you should really check it out. It gives the user a check box, placed above or below the submit button that they can QUICKLY click to prove they are human (and you can customize the text instruction any way you want) instead of forcing the commentor to try to figure out the hard to read word in captcha, or think about which numbers to input or to do math. It is SO much easier than the other captchas and works just as well.
I've swayed some bloggers i'm shocked changed their ways: JT here but also Mike @ MoneySmartsBlog (big CDN PF blogger) and some others. The check box is idiot proof whereas when I mess up a captcha, lately, I don't bother to try again and the blog loses a comment.
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7:59 pm
April 16, 2011
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Sustainable PF said:
Budgeting in the Fun Stuff said:
dmateer25 said:
I use akismet and conditionl CAPTCHA. This has taken care of all my spam comments.
This is the combo I use too. It gives real bloggers a chance for Akismet not to eat them accidentally and the spammers fail. I love it!
Have you checked out GASP on our site Crystal? While it's cool you don't comment on our site you should really check it out. It gives the user a check box, placed above or below the submit button that they can QUICKLY click to prove they are human (and you can customize the text instruction any way you want) instead of forcing the commentor to try to figure out the hard to read word in captcha, or think about which numbers to input or to do math. It is SO much easier than the other captchas and works just as well.
I've swayed some bloggers i'm shocked changed their ways: JT here but also Mike @ MoneySmartsBlog (big CDN PF blogger) and some others. The check box is idiot proof whereas when I mess up a captcha, lately, I don't bother to try again and the blog loses a comment.
Conditional Captcha isn't a normal Captcha. It's a very easy to read set of letters and numbers that asks the commenter to type in something like the 1st and 3rd character. It also ONLY is presented to people who Akismet marks as spam, so 90% of my commenters never have to do ANYTHING to comment. :-)
I don't mind GASP, but it is annoying to me to check a box every, single time. I hate regular Captcha. A couple of the blogs I normally comment on have regular captcha and if it eats my comment even once, I won't comment for weeks…it's just annoying – especially since my comments are so long usually.
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8:42 pm
April 16, 2011
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I've been using WP-Spamfree which seems to block a lot of comments.
It also will tell you where a comment is from in your email notification and it gives you an option to blacklist their IP.
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4:06 am
April 17, 2011
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Jackie
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I use Spam Karma 2 and it's been great. It says it's not being updated, but I haven't had any problems with it.
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10:18 am
April 17, 2011
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@Crystal After i'm done with my comment and I move to using the mouse, I find it much easier to click a check box than to have to go back to the keyboard to enter more data. I much prefer a single click every time than to have to enter 2 numbers every single time.
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11:31 am
April 17, 2011
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Sustainable PF said:
@Crystal After i'm done with my comment and I move to using the mouse, I find it much easier to click a check box than to have to go back to the keyboard to enter more data. I much prefer a single click every time than to have to enter 2 numbers every single time.
SPF, just to clarify, I don't think it is single click every single time vs 2 numbers every single time. It more like enter 2 numbers occasionally and most likely just once. I occasionally comment on Crystal's blog and I had to enter the numbers only once, I think it was the first time. After that I never had to enter anything so far.
I am not a frequent commenter (this is one area I have to totally improve on, I just read all the blogs but don't comment, I don't have enough confidence to comment. I have change that.) But from my little commenting, I feel something, a click or numbers (as long as I can read) is better than Akismet eating my comment without telling me anything.
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1:48 pm
April 17, 2011
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Post edited 1:50 pm – April 17, 2011 by Sustainable PF
@Suba – some sites I visit make me enter the 2 numbers every time (drives me nuts) – do you know why that would be? I also used to use conditional captcha but it was always letters – I never did find the numbers one.
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3:28 pm
April 17, 2011
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I use Wp Spamfree as well. It works pretty well.
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6:26 pm
April 17, 2011
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I use the combo that people are mentioning but I think there is a secondary issue – If you are getting spammed a lot then that means you are getting noticed and/or getting picked up for certain keywords.
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6:28 pm
April 17, 2011
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Sustainable PF said:
@Suba – some sites I visit make me enter the 2 numbers every time (drives me nuts) – do you know why that would be? I also used to use conditional captcha but it was always letters – I never did find the numbers one.
That means Akismet has you marked as spam on those sites. Am I one of them? If so, I can ask Akismet to mark you properly.
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9:20 am
April 18, 2011
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More SPAM means you are doing a good job and getting more attention. Consider it an annoying complement.
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10:24 am
April 18, 2011
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Sustainable PF said:
@Suba – some sites I visit make me enter the 2 numbers every time (drives me nuts) – do you know why that would be? I also used to use conditional captcha but it was always letters – I never did find the numbers one.
I use Akismet and conditional captcha as well. If you have to enter the numbers, it is because Akismet has classified you as spam. Conditional Captcha is really there to give the person leaving a comment a chance to tell Akismet that it's wrong.
I don't mind either system…but I do have having to enter a captcha code every time!
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