[wp-hackers] Spam results

Tara Star tellme at climbtothestars.org
Sat Dec 4 16:41:35 UTC 2004


Matt Mullenweg wrote:

> I'm curious what spam methods are working best for everyone? I see lots 
> of comments people saying they're using something but not many saying 
> what's working. Namely, what would be the best methods to roll in? 
> Obviously something like captcha doesn't fit the WP philosophy, but some 
> of the other approaches (scoring comments, better management of floods, 
> auto-closing) I think could be very effective even when mass-deployed. 
> Thoughts?
> 

Spam Karma works for me. Near to 4000 comments destroyed. One very 
clever hand-entered spam went through. No real comments were destroyed, 
except one at the beginning, which led to a bugfix.

Steph
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