It seems that a few genuine comments have been recently filtered by Akismet, the Wordpress spam-filtering plug-in I’ve been using oon this blog. If that’s happened to you, don’t think it’s because I snobbed you — it seems Akismet is a bit too enthusiastic about getting rid of spam sometimes…
Still, considering that plug-in filtered over 1800 pieces of spams so far, I can’t just get rid of spam-filtering completely. I’ve thought about using a captcha instead of Akismet, but that wouldn’t prevent track-back spamming. Any of you got a good solution for the spam problem?
In any case, if you try posting a comment and it doesn’t appear on the site, please send me an email so I can bring it back.
December 9th, 2006 at 12:06 am
WordPress Trackback Spam!!!
I have installed plugins that prevent comment spams, but this won't prevent trackback to be blocked. I've been spam by many
MFA websites that most probably is from the same network with trackback, but they are not linking me on their website. May I
know how do they do it and how do I stop it? Without disabling trackback?
Thanks, and I'm using WordPress.
December 13th, 2006 at 11:22 pm
I’ve been using Akismet, which comes installed by default with Wordpress. Just turn it on, and it should stop most spam, including trackback spam.
It’s not perfect however. I’ve seen a few valid comments being filtered as spam — including, ironically, yours. There’s a list of filtered comments however, so you can check it out once in a while and salvage the mistakes, like I just did.