Comment spam has increased lately on this blog. I had enabled the comment moderation word list but this has two problems:
a) Some comments still get through
b) All comments who fail to pass must then be moderated by me
I looked for good plugins and Hashcash seems the best solution. The only problem is that wp-plugins.org is down right now…
I have not tried it, but AuthImage could be a solution.
Comment by Panayotis Vryonis — August 30, 2005 @ 19:15
Since I installed auto shutoff I haven’t had any spam and it’s been about 4 months.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Auto_shutoff_comments
As long as you can live with comments being closed on older posts, it’s great.
Comment by Ian Landsman — August 30, 2005 @ 19:32
Unfortunately AuthImage uses Captcha, which I dislike. HashCash is transparent for the user (but requires javascript which spam bots don’t have)
Comment by Dimitris Giannitsaros — August 30, 2005 @ 19:37
Ian,
I thought I had seen HashCash praised by you! Is it not good enough after all?
I don’t understand why closing the comments works. I just had some spam on relatively new articles…?
Comment by Dimitris Giannitsaros — August 30, 2005 @ 19:46