Testing Spam Karma
As announced, The About Log is testing the Spam Karma plugin as its sole spam-stopping solution.
I’m serious about comment spam; it’s a burden to have 50+ users, many of whom don’t have or can’t make the time to delete their spam, and a solution that prevents spam from being committed to the database in the first place is worth my while.
I’m also seeking a few volunteers to be guinea pigs. Hannah and Steve have already volunteered; I’d take three more.
January 7th, 2005 at 10:56 am
Geof, you can use me too. I’m starting to see trackbacks to posts as spam now.
January 14th, 2005 at 1:17 pm
If you need more, I’ll volunteer… what does it entail? (edit: I’ll volunteer assuming I have what it takes…)
January 14th, 2005 at 2:04 pm
Actually, I’m rolling this out system-wide right now due to the positive results I’ve had with it…
February 3rd, 2005 at 2:39 pm
Using Spam Karma and Spam Words to Fight Comment Spam
As you know, I was testing Spam Karma on RMFO-Blogs a while back. Now, I’ve rolled it out for everyone, and have had that done for a while.
But since the TrackBack spammers are back, well, there’s still some manual work to be done.
You should…