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« on: February 04, 2008, 11:34:08 AM »
Well i've just been thru the blog comments on my blog... all 683 of them. They were pretty much all spam! This was for about 5 weeks.  Hoping that selecting them as spam will hopefully block them from posting again.  if not i'll start adding IPs to the block list Smiley

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« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2008, 06:45:03 AM »
Darren don't tell me it's a wordpress blog and you're not using SpamKarma.
I turned someone onto that plugin when they had over 1,000 spam comments already on their blog and they where all gone in under 5 minutes.
Plus he has never had to delete a spam comment since.
I use it on all of mine and the only time I see a spam comment is when I view my spamkarma logs to see what it has deleted or blocked.
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« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2008, 07:13:44 AM »
I sacked my blog after a few weeks due to spam feckin spam spam.

might start it up again tho if this spamkarma thingy is all it's cracked up to be.

cheers for the heads up ThomM
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« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2008, 08:05:09 AM »
I'm not really into blogs -I have 6 maybe more.  But I did find this out re Spam Karma -interested to see Thom's view on it.
http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2005/03/27/spamkarma-and-wp-performance/
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« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2008, 09:17:12 AM »
i'll take a look at it.  the only reason i've not added a plugin to do this for me already is up until now i've been lacking in the time to do it.  As soon as i've cleared the workload i'll revamp the whole site.  On a related note - spam comments.  I marked a load of comments as spam. What does this get me? does it block future comments with the same email, ip, etc? If not i'll just delete in future

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« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2008, 04:13:04 PM »
Quote from: "ctabuk"
I'm not really into blogs -I have 6 maybe more.  But I did find this out re Spam Karma -interested to see Thom's view on it.
http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2005/03/27/spamkarma-and-wp-performance/

Dave that post about SpamKarma is almost 3 years old (3/27/2005) and is with wp version 1.5, wp is up to version 2.3.3 now.
I don't have any problem with it slowing down my blogs at all.
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I had not realized that Spam Karma had created a fulltext index of the comments table and I had not removed that index. Adding to the problem was the feature of Wordpress 1.5 that stores all spam comments. The comment fulltext index had grown to over 50 megs in size (with over 25000 spam comments plus the few thousand legit ones). All of this resulted in every mysql query taking more than one second to execute.
SpamKarma doesn't create a fulltext index anymore nor does WP store all the spam comments anymore.
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« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2008, 04:22:32 PM »
If anyone would know - I knew it would be you Smiley  Many thanks
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« Reply #7 on: February 07, 2008, 03:59:58 AM »
So I guess I should give ya'll the link to my favorite plugin list  :roll:
With the exception of the form mailer plugin and the WWSGD plugin these are all pretty much mandatory on all my blogs.
http://www.wp-revealed.com/plugins/yet-another-favorite-plugins-list.php
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« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2008, 07:05:20 AM »
All right. More plug-ins to look at and decide what is best and what is not. This really helps out when you have to decide on what plug-ins to use. Thanks.
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« Reply #9 on: February 08, 2008, 12:51:09 AM »
anyone want to try posting 1 comment + 1 spam comment to my blog? heres the blog url, i'm testing this spam karma thingy.  i've disabled the captcha as the php version i'm running doesnt seem to have an upto date GD lib but i'll fix that over the weekend,

http://www.darrensim.co.uk/blog

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« Reply #10 on: February 08, 2008, 01:07:42 AM »
Just left you a comment Darren.
It said it was waiting moderation.
One of the things spamkarma looks at is how old the post is that receives the comment. I didn't put any links in the comment which is another indicator.
So it should get a low score but may be held because of the age of the post I commented on.
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« Reply #11 on: February 08, 2008, 01:13:09 AM »
Trying now Darren.....

Submitted 2 with very similar emails.... did my best to find you some spam on the first one.

How come you get all the spam? send some my way... One of mine has had 900+ visitors from stumble today and only 2 spam comments... I'm highly dissapointed!
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