Tag Archives: akismet

Typepad AntiSpam

By Andy Beard | Published: May 30, 2008

I have switched Spam Karma off... temporarily, to test Typepad's new Antispam plugin As is well known I am not a huge fan of collective intelligence as the sole arbiter of whether a comment is "spam or ham", and long term I am most likely to switch back to Spam Karma, possibly using Typepad Antispam as an additional filter. I am also going to grab the code from Igor so I can test Typepad Antispam in conjunction with his Project Honeypot though I think that too is best served as a Spam Karma filter/plugin with probably a high threshold. Typepad Antispam was quite easy to set up

Posted in blogging tips | Also tagged comment spam, skap, Spam Karma, typepad, typepad antispam | Comments closed

Declaring Akismet Bankruptcy

By Andy Beard | Published: March 26, 2008

I have simply had enough of leaving what I feel are worthy contributions to the discussion on blogs using the Akismet plugin for comment spam, only for the comments not to appear, or worse, seeing pingbacks from the 100s of blogs that scrape my RSS feeds, but not my own pingbacks appearing.

Akismet

I am going to have to come up with an alternative way to comment

The false positive percentage in my personal experience must be the wrong side of 50% in recent weeks for comments, especially on blogs where I haven't commented before, and I have a feeling it is probably

Posted in blogging tips | Tagged akismet | Comments closed

Akismet – Auntie Spam

By Andy Beard | Published: September 14, 2007

If you still insist on using purely Akismet for spam control on your WordPress blog rather than other alternatives, then you will be glad to know Engtech has released a new version of Auntie Spam, which helps you manage your Akismet spam more effectively.

Akismet False Positives & Spam Karma Configuration

By Andy Beard | Published: May 31, 2007

Spam Karma for me is the most effective comment and trackback spam management solution because it doesn’t cause me problems with false positives on many blogs where I comment on a regular basis.
As a blogger, it is a huge time saver by sending me email notifications a few times per day if it finds entries that are “possible” good comments and trackbacks, but which tripped up one or more of the various algorithms it uses.

Posted in blogging tips, plugins, wordpress | Also tagged artificial_intelligence, blacklist, blog_spam, collective_intelligence, commenting, comments, configuration, geotargeting, sk, spam, spam_karma, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

Is Akismet a Spam Magnet? Plus a little on Trackbacks

By Andy Beard | Published: March 31, 2007

I am going to keep this fairly short.

I was just reading Paul’s post on trackbacks as there seems to me some kind of meme floating around started by Steve Rubel that trackbacks are dead.

Posted in blogging tips, marketing | Also tagged comments, comment_spam, dofollow, edelman, nofollow, sk, social_media_press_release, spam, spam_karma, steve_rubel, trackbacks, wordpress, wordpress plugins | Comments closed

Akismet – the Danger of Collective Intelligence (and why I don’t use it)

By Andy Beard | Published: February 14, 2007

Akismet is a very smart and effective system for controlling comment spam on blogs, and I know thousands of bloggers swear by it, listing it as their number one plugin for their blogging platform.

Posted in blogging tips, marketing | Also tagged artificial_intelligence, blacklist, blog_spam, collective_intelligence, commenting, comments, geotargeting, spam | Comments closed