I’ve worked on a new version of Spambam which has a lot more features, it now doesn’t reject spam but simply moves it into a spam folder. I’d be interested in what everyone thinks about it and if this method is preferred to simply blocking all spam. The reason behind the method change was to stop valid comments from being rejected and give the ability to restore comments which are marked as spam.
The beta can be found here (Spambam is now part of Blogsecurity):-
Spambam beta
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I hate the idea of letting any application automate the process of handling my data. In my books this feature rocks!
Nice work Gareth.
Posted 25 Oct 2007 at 11:23 am ¶“I’d be interested in what everyone thinks about it and if this method is preferred to simply blocking all spam.”
This just screams for a configuration option.
Posted 25 Oct 2007 at 12:22 pm ¶@David
Thanks
@thorin
What kind of configuration option do you mean? Block all spam or moderate spam? That would be a good idea
Posted 25 Oct 2007 at 12:28 pm ¶Ya “Block All” vs “Move To….”
Posted 26 Oct 2007 at 1:37 pm ¶thanks for your program. makes WP much better
Posted 28 Oct 2007 at 11:26 am ¶does the spamban, prevent 2 posts in a row?, because i had a follow up to my initial post, but my followup was booted by the spambot
Posted 31 Oct 2007 at 4:37 am ¶@dave bulldog
Spambam presumes that comments will be added once per session, refreshing the page should fix it to allow more than one comment. I might change this in future if it causes problems.
Posted 31 Oct 2007 at 4:45 am ¶Spambam 2.1 does not work with Firefox 3.0 beta 2! Can you please check this out? You receive an message about not having javascript…
PS. I love the way spambam just blocks the spam instead of moving it to the spam box! I get thousands of spam messages and it is impossible to wade through them all!
Posted 06 Jan 2008 at 11:06 am ¶This plugin is so good, I wrote about it on my blog:
http://www.doctort.org/adam/general/spambam-anti-spam-for-wordpress.html
Posted 14 Jan 2008 at 11:14 pm ¶the spam blocked me from posting on sequenza 21.
Posted 19 Jan 2008 at 6:49 am ¶i can not remember when i have ever been blocked in this way
I LOVE this plugin. Since my blog got popular, I was getting hundreds of SPAMbot posts a day. Even better. I actually like how it’s out of sight, out of mind.
My only complaint is that on my template, trackbacks are posted as comments and they don’t know to wait 30 seconds.
As a result, people are just leaving their links all over my comments section instead of just linking to me in their own blogs.
If you can’t fix it, no biggie - it’s not worth deactivating the plugin to give credit to other websites.
Posted 09 Feb 2008 at 11:59 am ¶At http://goldhaber.org/blog/2008/03/28/why-just-one-top-leader-everywhere/ SpamBam blocks my comments complaining about Javascript even when I have enabled it (I’ve tried Firefox 2 and 3 and Konqueror).
Posted 29 Mar 2008 at 10:00 am ¶@Zbigniew Lukasiak
Spambam is used on this blog so it may be a problem with the configuration of that particular site.
Posted 29 Mar 2008 at 1:13 pm ¶Yeah - but I have no way to contact the site administrator there and ask him to check his config. Catch 22.
I think you guys should think about some appeal process - because this way it is very frustrating.
Posted 31 Mar 2008 at 8:45 am ¶Post a Comment