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Spam Karma 2

A few weeks ago I started getting hit by comment spam - hard. I was getting about 100 PPC comments a day (the other PPC - porn, pills and casinos). I realized after a few days that I couldn’t keep approving all of my comments by hand.

So I looked around for a good comment spam filter and found Spam Karma 2. At first I wasn’t that impressed with Spam Karma 2 because it was filtering about 80% of my comment spam and approving the other 20% - I temporarily turned it off, but then after looking at some of the options I realized that I could make it more aggressive. Since setting it as a very aggressive spam filter I haven’t had one spam comment approved and I also haven’t had one legitimate comment filtered - I couldn’t be happier.

I’m not sure exactly how Spam Karma works but I think that it looks at a variety of factors such as links, common spam words, ip addresses, etc. to assign a “karma score” to each comment. It was really easy to install with Wordpress and it is probably saving me at least an hour a week.

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1. I used the Akismet plugin that comes with the defualt installation. I just registered for a free key, and so far it’s worked perfectly.

   Comment by Jordan Gunderson — June 3, 2006 @ 9:22 am

2. Ditto on Akismet. It comes installed with WP v2.0. So far it’s worked great for me. In just a few weeks, it’s caught over a thousand spam comments. I’m not sure about Spam Karma, but Akismet uses the power of the community to help filter spam and reduce false positives.

   Comment by Rishi Khaitan — June 6, 2006 @ 6:53 pm

3. Thanks for the advice, guys - so far Spam Karma has been pretty nice but if I have any problems I’m just going to upgrade to WP 2.0 and use akismet… I should probably upgrade anyway.

   Comment by admin — June 8, 2006 @ 8:40 am

4. That;s funny I installed spam karma a few days ago on diyhappy and so far it has been perfect. I like the digest.

   I noticed in WP 2.0 you can mark things as “spam” but I never knew why - or how that was different than deleting it. I guess that’s all part of the Akismet community review thing. (shrugs)

   Comment by Sam — June 9, 2006 @ 7:08 am

5. Don’t get Spam Karma it crippled my blog comments.

   Roger

   Comment by Roger — September 15, 2006 @ 8:09 am

6. Someone else below asked this already about antispam scripts.
   I am getting nailed with Spam on my website mails and in our blog website - now its offline too

   much spam. Is there anyway to stop this? If not, there really isn’t any point in leaving it up

   and active. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

   Thanks for help, Keep up the good work. Greetings from Poland

   Comment by Pozycjonowanie — December 12, 2006 @ 9:12 am

7. I think that Spam Karma 2 is great to fight with spamm, however captcha too

   Comment by tanie linie lotnicze — February 23, 2007 @ 3:19 am

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9. Thanks for the advice, guys - upgrade anyway

   Comment by Heinz Bilda — April 3, 2007 @ 4:51 am

10. Thanks for the article, Greets from Germany

    Comment by Gekko — June 16, 2007 @ 6:26 am

11. That’s kind of sad really. What filter did you say you were using? You have two spam comments in this thread alone.

    Comment by Jeremy Duffy — September 4, 2007 @ 9:43 am

12. Nice try, Jeremy, but I actually had 6 spam comments on this post

    Comment by admin — September 4, 2007 @ 11:23 am

13. I too tried Spam Karma 2 and turned it off for the same reason you did. Maybe I should give it another try..

    Comment by James — September 12, 2007 @ 12:22 pm

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