Blog Catalog Discussion: WordPress Akismet Had to Go

rileycentral on 'WordPress Akismet Had to Go'

rileycentral — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:47:44 -0500

reCaptchya ended up being very cumbersome to my readers and I still had spam in y akismet so ... back to only akismet.

cooper on 'WordPress Akismet Had to Go'

cooper — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:25:27 -0500

I detest captcha's and rarely comment on blogs with them. I have had very few problems with akismet if one or two commenters who routinely end up there, once I release them a few time akismet seems to remembers they are not spam.

timethief on 'WordPress Akismet Had to Go'

timethief — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:07:37 -0500

As there can be false positives,I always check everything in my Akismet spam filter on my free-hosted blog before pressing "delete".
I have also noted that since March the number of false positives occurring have decreased substantially. The work done to improve Akismet has been successful as is witnessed by the lack of posts to the wp.com support forum on this issue.

On my self hosted wordpress install on my domain I use Defensio and I always check that filter as well before pressing "delete".

crkian on 'WordPress Akismet Had to Go'

crkian — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:59:19 -0500

Its going to be the same whatever spam filter you use for a blog, emails, contact foms

rileycentral on 'WordPress Akismet Had to Go'

rileycentral — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:47:44 -0500

For self-hosted bloggers out there using Wordpress: Watch out for your spammed comments, some may be good.

http://postcardsfromthefunnyfarm.com/recaptcha-tkos-akismet-in-alley-fight/