Note: comments
September 16, 2008 – 9:30 amI’ve noticed that the increase in spammy comments to this blog has made the comment spam protection sometimes a bit too moderate-happy, and it has marked some legitimate comments as spam.
If you write a legitimate comment to one of my posts, and your comment doesn’t immediately show up after submitting, you can drop me a mail. The chances are the script ate your comment and I’ll have to mark it as not spam.
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7 Responses to “Note: comments”
I told you to drop Akismet and just implement my system!
Put every comment that has a link in it into the moderation queue, everything else just gets posted.
By Icheb on Sep 16, 2008
Out of the 1000′ish comments which are currently flagged as spam and not yet deleted, 99% probably have a link (or more) in them. The few non-spam comments also had links in them…
I would never have time to go through all of those. I try to sometimes check the spam list for mistakes, but it’s really tedious.
By Jani Hartikainen on Sep 16, 2008
So why not run Akismet only on the comments that have links? How much spam could there possibly be that doesn’t contain a link?
By Icheb on Sep 16, 2008
Now how would that help when the innocent comments have links too? They still would be lost in the jumble of spam.
By Jani Hartikainen on Sep 16, 2008
That depends on how many of the comments that don’t contain links get flagged as spam. If none, forget it, if plenty, it’s something to consider.
By Icheb on Sep 16, 2008
I created a script that rates the spam messages “spam likeliness”.
it creates a spam threat counter
- common keywords like viagra cialis credit score etc, common +.2
- contains url, bbcode, html +.3
- spammer e-mail addresses (mail.ru) +.4
- common spammer ip’s +1
if anything goes over the 0.5 threshold it is flagged and dropped into the queue anything over 3.0 gets deleted. in both cases the person gets an option to notify the admin.
when reviewing the spam queue i can sort by threat level and quickly work of the ones that are obvious spam.
By mark on Sep 16, 2008
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By Lee Pearson on Jan 9, 2009