It is hard work giving money away, and it seems it is hard work voting for which WordPress plugin author should receive $100.
Whilst it might appear that there was an increase of votes this time around, with 29 votes instead of 24, that doesn’t allow for the fact that 8 votes were added as a bonus. Thus there were only 21 fresh votes.
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Competition was fierce but with only 24 votes, the winner could easily have been decided in the last few hours.
I have checked the ballots and there doesn’t seem to be any scandals – rigged voting would have been news worthy and actually profitable, it just goes to show how honest people in the WordPress community are.
Read more on Results: Top WordPress Plugins (March 2007)…
I have opened up the voting for the first round of my cash giveaway for WordPress plugin authors.
Nominations for the Best WordPress Plugin each month are made by my readers, and half my income from paid reviews is given away as donations to help support development costs of the best WordPress plugins.
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Spam Karma is one of my favorite plugins and despite rumours to the contrary, it is still being supported.
Dr Dave has just released a new version
New in 2.3 of Spam Karma:
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Typepad AntiSpam
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