Like I said earlier, I just upgraded to WordPress 2.1 a couple days ago. Since then, I haven’t seen any Akismet spam to delete or moderate. I’m not complaining, but just a little irked. Are comments getting through? I posted a test one, then promptly deleted it – that was fine. James sent me a trackback last night, so that’s fine. What’s going on?
I’m currently using the following antispam plugins:
- Akismet 2.0
- Bad Behavior 2.0.9 (I’m upgrading to 2.0.10 after posting this)
- Spam Karma 2.2 (with the SK2 Akismet Plugin)
- Referrer Karma (not exactly a plugin)
Update February 2, 2007: After reading Tom’s post about the awesomeness that is Akismet 2.0, perhaps it’s the new “Automatically discard spam comments on posts older than a month” feature. Even with SK2 disabled, I still haven’t had to delete comment spam from Akismet. So basically, before 2.0, all the comment spam I was deleting was from posts older than a month. Crazy. Case closed, I guess!
All I’m using is Akismet and I have plenty to see in my moderation queue. Maybe it’s everything combined that’s doing the trick?
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I’ve actually noticed an increase in spam starting yesterday, but Akismet has been catching all of it. I recommend that you try deactivating SK and RK for the week. I’ve been using only Bad Behavior and Akismet ever since Akismet was released and haven’t had a single problem.
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Perhaps comment spam can’t compete with my level of awesomeness. 🙂
Kidding aside, I’ll try deactivating SK first, then perhaps RK.
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Bryan,
that option in Akismet spectacularly cuts down on your Akismet queue. Like I said I went from >500 spam comments per day to about 20.
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