6 Responses to “New WordPress Plugin To Deter Comment Spam”
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Stephen Cronin is Manager of Online Service Delivery at a Queensland Government department & has been a freelance WordPress developer/consultant since 2007
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hi Stephen,
Cool sounding plugin, and anything to battle comment spam is welcome.
With my relatively unknown (but dofollow, and not linked here) blog I was getting a lot of spam (even with akismet) until I installed BadBehavior. I love it, but other bloggers say it is too aggressive. Anyway, I recommend it.
One problem I have seen is “generic comment spam” which I blogged about where people cut and paste the same comment everywhere. It would be nice to have a plugin that could search google and see if a comment was really unique…
But back to your plugin… I would set the redirect to be on by default and send the spammers to the wiki page on spam… but then my sense of humor is a little twisted.
Anyway, thanks for letting me ramble and thanks for helping in the battle!
Steve
Hi Stephen, while I can see how this plugin may be really useful, I find the suggestion mentioned in the comment above “I would set the redirect to be on by default and send the spammers to the wiki page on spam…” to be detrimental. In my specific case, I was just shown your warning message upon landing on your site, because I was directed here from a Google search on how to actually *avoid* borderline spam! I find it ironic in a way. So, now I am in your logs as a warned individual…
Your plugin is to actually deter comment spam, so you can expect that many people will be Googling for it and that combination of words. Just my thought.
I have to say that Akismet + Bad Behavior are doing a great job at containing those comments, but lately I have seen cases of human generated (borderline) spam that made me anguish a little before moderating, because many times the text is on topic. But something about the way they are posted is irritating (keywords or sites I don’t want to link to).
Stephen,
I landed on your page via a Google search for keyword luv…I am trying to understand what is going to be the best comment strategy in the long run. Since I have only been at this for five months, the ropes are a bit new to me and NO I don’t have time to be moderating the junk that is coming to my sites but would welcome more of the back links.
So, if I am reading your blog correctly, keep keywordluv, download comment warning and ditch dofollow. Is that correct?
Thanks Stephen!
Sofia
Hi Sofia,
Sorry about the very slow response! If you want a quick traffic boost KeywordLuv and Dofollow will do it, but it’s not quality traffic and it will result in spam comments. Once you’re established, you probably won’t want them, but it does give you a leg up in the beginning.
I’m finding that people are getting more creative with their templated comments and it is making it harder to identify them. One of the more recent ones I received was:
“I am using the same template that you are using for your site, but mine loads so much slower than yours despite the fact that you have considerably more multimedia than mine”.
Seems like a valid comment, but the fact of the matter was that it was on a site I had just developed with only one “Hello World” article and absolutely no other content to speak of.
It would be nice to see some kind of comment network, like an integration of WordPress or Gravatar, that forces users to login in order to post a comment across the major blogging platforms (Blogger, WordPress, etc…). Commentors could be “graded” (like sellers on eBay). Commentors with X number of spammed comments would be banned, making a registered user ID useless after only a day or so of use.
It wouldn’t stop spam (I really don’t think anything will) but it would make spamming blogs hosted on/with major platforms a real pain in the butt.
It would also serve to allow people who do genuinely get out into the community and comment on do follow blogs are able to continue to do so without worrying about the whole world wide web closing itself up in a “Nofollow” closet making do follow links nearly impossible to get.
Hmm, it looks effective. I guess I can use it along with the anit-spam plugin I’m currently using. Now I’m using GASP to block automated spam comments. This plugin displays a client side generated check box for comment posters to mark before they submit. I guess it is better idea than using complex captcha and cookie method.
Yet another is ‘Spam Free WordPress’ that generates an anonymous passwords for comment posters to fill in a box. I’ve recently activated it on my blog and studying its effectiveness. Logically the plugin looks great working.