Stopping comment spam properly

[peach]

What is the best way to stop comment spam at the door?
I spend too much time deleting spam from the admin panels from my sites, is there anything I can do?

 

[NtodaS]

Maybe there's some blocking tool to first of all block links in comments and maybe words like viagra and penis enlargement stuff

 

[a.titus1]

EDIT* Misunderstood the original post

 

[joe]

Akismet for wordpress does the job very well - without inconviencing your users with a captcha.

 

[NtodaS]

Akismet for wordpress does the job very well - without inconviencing your users with a captcha.

Can you expalin how this works? cause it seems hard to block spammers, without cutting into previleges of regular users.

 

[joe]

Try it out! It made a stream of comment spam down to nothing worthy of comment.

 

[peach]

Try it out! It made a stream of comment spam down to nothing worthy of comment.

Does it use bayesian filtering or something? I wish I could try it out but the sites that get the most spam are Drupal and Joomla sites.

 

[V12Kid]

There is a nice mod if you use WP that captures spam comments and it worked awesome on one of my blogs. ill have to find the link to it but check the WP development site for it

 

[joe]

It's called akismet and it comes with Wordpress 2.0

 

[Andrew]

I think we know who is going to be the first member to 250 posts

 

[joe]

haha. People are already wiping the floor with me - I can't keep up with them.

No, I'm just trying to help Jon establish his site.

 

[NtodaS]

I think we know who is going to be the first member to 250 posts

who? I really don't know cause it's kinda bedtime here now so. Anyway what I've seen so far It's going pretty damn wel Jon, made 3 active referals already today

 

[Max]

How about CAPTCHA?

 

[peach]

How about CAPTCHA?

Been thinking about that, but I personally hate typing those things, I don't think I would be posting many comments if I had to go through CAPTHA each time

 

[Max]

Been thinking about that, but I personally hate typing those things, I don't think I would be posting many comments if I had to go through CAPTHA each time

As far as I know, it's the most effective easy option. The only problem I see with it is the fact that screen readers can't read them.

 

[peach]

As far as I know, it's the most effective easy option. The only problem I see with it is the fact that screen readers can't read them.

You actually have CAPTHCAs with audio hooked into it, so now only people who are both blind and deaf, can't use them.

 

[Max]

You actually have CAPTHCAs with audio hooked into it, so now only people who are both blind and deaf, can't use them.

Good point. I have never seen that done but it's definitely possible.

Clever...

 

[donn]

Akismet for wordpress does the job very well - without inconviencing your users with a captcha.

Akismet really is the hands down leader at this point.

 

[JDA]

I've found Spam Karma to be a pretty good solution for Wordpress:

http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/

 

[donn]

I've found Spam Karma to be a pretty good solution for Wordpress:

http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/

Yeah, I've heard that works moderately well.