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2:33 pm
February 23, 2012
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moneysmarts
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MainstreamMom said:
I had the same problem… I installed this plugin and stopped it at once:
Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin
Very simple plugin that adds a checkbox to the comment form requesting that the user clicks it to prove they are not a spammer. Bots wont see it so their spam comment will be discarded.
Growmap is one of the plugins I mentioned in the post. The post goes a step further though and talks about something you can add to your .htaccess file in order to stop a lot of the spammers dead in their tracks. I had growmap, but my problems didn't stop completely until i added that code to my .htaccess file.
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1:16 am
February 24, 2012
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Van Beek
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Be aware that some of the anti-spam tools you use also affect non-spammers. My comments end up on a regular basis in the spam-corner since I am commenting from Thailand.
On my own sites I use now Disqus for comments. This works well for me.
Before that I got lots of spam. I left one site too unprotected for a few months and did not look after it. Then I found something like 18,000 spam comments.
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12:34 pm
February 24, 2012
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jonrhodesuk
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I have just installed and activated GASP but there doesn't as yet appear to be any difference. Does it only apply to new posts I make now that it is installed?
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4:20 pm
March 8, 2012
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Andi B.
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Thank you guys, I'm going to try this. Once I dropped below 500k my spam situation was getting ridiculous. We'll see if this works, but if you can't comment on my site for any reason, please let me know.
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Andi B.
Make the life you want.
Enjoy good food.
Enjoy good friends.
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6:15 am
March 9, 2012
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Van Beek
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I commented on "make the life you want" and it works fine. "Sometimes it is not entertainment" is a really beautiful article I think.
Note that you do not have any permalinks for your URLs installed on that blog. Is that on purpose?
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1:42 pm
May 18, 2012
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Brilliant Finances
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I started getting 10 spams an hour recently. In a way I hope that means my site is starting to become a real site, ha ha. I activated the plugin and it was not there at first. I had to log out and then I could see the little check box. I hope this works. Thanks for the plugin guys.
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4:54 pm
May 23, 2012
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Brilliant Finances
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Plugin worked. Spammers are gone. Now if I could only get 10 vistitors an hour 
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9:42 am
August 10, 2012
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John @ DebtAdviceResource
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Hey guys!
I've just installed the GASP plugin. Thanks for the tip!
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11:36 am
August 10, 2012
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Earth and Money
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I was always wondering what the plugin was to add that little checkbox to the commenting process. I have used Akismet so far, without too much trouble. I probably get an average of 5 spam comments a day maximum. Occasionally, Akismet labels some legitimate comments as spam, so I look through quickly before deleting everything.
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11:33 am
September 17, 2012
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Jason Clayton @ frugal habits
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Everyone,
Thanks for the GASP plugin. My spam was starting to give me an ulcer. Now, I feel much better. :)
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11:53 am
September 17, 2012
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TB at BlueCollarWorkman
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When I first starting getting spam I was excited, it meant to me that my blog was doing well enough that spammers thought it was worth their time to spam! Lol, so congratulations on having a meaningful web presence.  I use that askimet plugin which catches them and so once a week I go thorugh and delete them all (pulling out the 1 or 2 good ones that in there)… I don't know what else to do.
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11:11 pm
September 29, 2012
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Renée @ NickelbyNickel
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I don't have a huge spam problem, most of it gets caught thankfully, I had the spamfree plugin, but it ate some real comments so I disabled it again, I hate hate hate captchas, just installed GASP. Hopefully it works for me :)
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12:46 pm
October 1, 2012
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Eric – PersonalProfitability.com
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I use AKISMET with Conditional CAPTCHA. Always works well for me and never get any complaints. Only a CAPTCHA if someone is marked by AKISMET as spam. Most users never see it.
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8:06 pm
October 1, 2012
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Jennifer Lynn
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I have been slammed by spam the last few days, no idea as to why. Right now I have Akismet installed but may need to evaluate another option to work in tandem to eradicate these silly spammers.
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Broke-Ass Mommy
…first-time Mommy with a passion for saving, personal finance and investing
Website: [ Broke-Ass Mommy ]
Twitter: [ @JennaL ]
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2:10 pm
November 13, 2012
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TheNet86
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they are bots not real people !! there are different plugins that stop spam, some of which other members have posted here, Akimset is best. its is bieng used my millions i guess around the world.
hope that helps
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