New Spam Fighting Plugin Better Than Akismet?

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by byosko • 19 years ago

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paulgb• 19 years ago

You might be surprised how effective it is just to make sure the user has JavaScript on. Almost all spam-bots do not execute the JavaScript so it is a fairly reliable way to determine if a comment is spam or not. For users without JavaScript you can still degrade nicely to a "type this number in this box" question. Sure, it would be easy to write a bot to get around it, but spammers would be better off just looking for other blogs to spam.

I hate to sound self-promotional, but I did write a plugin that does this for WordPress which can be found here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jsspamblock/ .

especkman• 19 years ago

Why is the interesting? Some weak marketing speak (oh, but with attitude) and no product I can actually try without giving them my contact info and hoping they pick me (please, oh please, pick me, please)

BTW, I've never used Akismet because I started using Spamkarma2 before Akismet became standard. SK2 has done an excellent job for me. It scores spam using a bunch of different tests, including an encrypted javascript payload.

I've had very few false positives or negatives.

henning• 19 years ago

who knows? vaporware for now. no solid information as to how they're differentiating themselves, and i doubt they licensed akismet's corpus, which is well over half a billion in size.

it could be just as flaky and unreliable as akismet.

New Spam Fighting Plugin Better Than Akismet?

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