Give Comment Spam no Chance

If you haven’t already, you will soon find spam to be the biggest pita for your blog. Like emails, your comments would look like a classified section for pharmaceutical products. Unlike emails, your comments are not only read by you, but also by your visitors, which makes them a high priority target for spammers.

When you install Wordpress, you already have an anti-spam plugin in your plugin directory - Akismet. While it’s not that bad, I found it to be suboptimal. Both the numbers of false positives and false negatives are a bit too high.

So, instead of Akismet I prefer Spam Karma. I’d suggest you head over to Dave’s Blog and download it.

The installation is pretty easy. Just unzip the archive, open your ftp client to copy it as is to your blog’s plugin directory, so the path looks something like this: yourdomain/wp-content/plugins/SK2/.

Activate Spam Karma in your blog’s plugin management.

To configure Spam Karma, take a look at Andy’s configuration post (That’s where I got my settings from and it’s working like a charm).

I hope it’ll do for you what it did for me - get rid of this crappy spam.

10 Responses to “Give Comment Spam no Chance”

Torsten on June 8th, 2007 at 7:07 pm

I just can agree with this. I am also using Spam Karma 2 and the results are absolutely satisfying and I just can recommend to use it.
Wallet Rehab - Ways to save money on June 11th, 2007 at 6:27 pm

I’ve been really happy with Akismet. I suppose it’s because my traffic isn’t that high… yet. I do have SK in my plugins directory. Just haven’t needed to do activate it yet.
Earn money online on September 8th, 2008 at 7:36 am

Spam Karma 2 is really satisfying, i do agree. Spammers can be tackled after all i guess.
Marketing-Calculator on February 2nd, 2009 at 8:12 am

Wow! nice blog. i loved reading it. It has lots of information.

Thanks a lot!
EZ Wealth Solutions on March 21st, 2009 at 6:23 am

Good tips. Need to do these unto my blog straightaway.
Government Money Club on March 30th, 2009 at 6:59 am

These days comment spams have become very common. Anyways nice tips.

Loved reading it. Thanks!
Modern Furniture on July 22nd, 2009 at 5:04 pm

While it’s not that bad, I found it to be suboptimal. Both the numbers of false positives and false negatives are a bit too high.
Anton on October 13th, 2009 at 12:06 am

Wow nice blog i loved reading it It has lots of information
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