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How much SPAM does your blog get???
Posted by thefloatingfrog • 11/14/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: akismet, spam, wordpress
www.thefloatingfrog.co.uk/frog-blog/
I use Wordpress as my blogging platform and have akismet active to catch spam comments. So far I have well over 1000 SPAM comments that Akismet has caught! Does that sound a lot to you?
How much SPAM comments have you racked up? What type of site is it too?
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@thefloatingfrog
G'day to you. We were discussing this yesterday and earlier today in this thread www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/so-how-many-of-you
Re: wordpress[dot]com blog.
Note that all users on that multi-user blogging platform use Akismet, which is doing an excellent job since the upgrading done in the past year.
Re: my domain
On my wordpress[dot]org install I began using Defensio last year when Akismet was giving me too many false positives. It works very well indeed.
I'm satisfied with the performance of both free spam filters. Forgive me for not taking out the time to rush off and get the numbers but I'm multitasking at work. -
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@dinny16
Read Before Posting community forum posting guidelines www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/read-before-posting-1 -
Link dropping is bad, and makes you popular among BC members... in a bad way.
So TT suggestion's good, read the goddamn community guideline AND follow it.
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Akismet is fantastic for catching the SPAM but where does it all come from, and is Wordpress a specific target?
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It's my experience that Defensio is equally as good as Akismet is at catching spam.
onecoolsite (January 16, 2008 installation)
Akismet has caught 16,962 spam for you since you first installed it. No further details available.
thistimethisspace
Defensio defensio.com (January 16, 2008 installation)
* Recent accuracy: 99.32%
* 22711 spam
* 1453 legitimate comments
* 113 false negatives (undetected spam)
* 61 false positives (legitimate comments identified as spam)
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@timethief So you too experience high volumes of SPAM comments, any ideas how to reduce it?
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I experience less spam on my blogging tips blog than I do on my personal blog. I'm assuming that's because one might discuss subjects like relationships and sexuality in a personal blog that they wouldn't discuss in a blogging tips blog.
I have no strategies for reducing spam at it's source. Who does? The spammers are opportunistic and will always escalate their efforts to pollute cyberspace with their waste. They use bots, of course, and they operate in the hopes that a minority of uninitiated new bloggers and website owners, and/or dullwits, who are so desirous of receiving comments that they will open their sites to auto-posting spam.
I moderate every comment I receive. I check through the contents of the spam filters each day and then I hit the "empty quarantine" button.
Check out the Akismet Live Spam Zeitgeist for today
86% of all comments are spam
akismet.com/stats/
There are many spammers and sploggers who set up their nefarious businesses on free hosted sites. The wordpres[do]com community members are extremely active when it comes to reporting the forgoing, as well as, reporting porno sites that haven't been set to "private", so it's a "cleaner" community than, for example, Blogger can lay claim to having. Many wpcom bloggers freely donate an hour or two a day or a week, etc. to the community and devote it to finding and reporting the parasites and predators to Admin. -
Sadly no Akismet for Blogspot.
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@timethief
i read community guideline but i dont think i should read it again .. What made you to say me that-
@dinny16
I noticed that you were new here. I know from experience that many new members don't know that we aren't allowed to post links into comments, unless the links they post directly relate to the topic being discussed in a thread. I thought it was a good idea to point you towards the rules so when your links disappear you will know why that is.
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oops! wrong placement
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lol
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Sounds like a lot, but I'm no judge.
I use Blogspot, which has been pretty effective in blocking spammish comments. Recently, however, I've been getting a few that seem to be posted by real human beings.
Example: ( anotherwaronterrorblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/mumbai-attack-investigators-hav... ), a post about the Mumbai attack investigation, has the following comment:
"MoneyBonanza said...
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December 3, 2008 12:50 AM"
Spam? You bet!
This time, the user, MoneyBonanza, actually has a profile, and a blog: Random Walk Down What Street?
With post that ends in the same spam.
So What?
I can't think of anything to do about it, but felt like venting.
There. I've vented.
Back to work.
My plan is to keep the comment up for a while, in case anyone wants to follow up on this comment - and then delete it, as I've done with the others. -
None so far, but I'm on Blogspot and have captcha enabled, which maybe makes a difference. Spammers seem to be targeting email these days, but I still check comments to make sure there's no spam.
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@Norski
Hmm manual spam, that's strange. The closest I've come to seeing this on my blog is when people put keywords in the name field, using them as anchor links to one of there articles then leaving a very simple comment. I either delete them entirely or edit the name to something neutral.
Seems to me that Wordpress is the target for these spammers, and not Blogspot. A bit like virus creators targeting PC's and not MAC. You get the odd one but nothing to rival the other.
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