Experimental Comment Spam Prevention System for WordPress Blogs

Thanks for making the plugins!

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I’m happy to hear that there will be another spam comment plugin since I’ve been noticing a big spike in spam comments (they’re getting smarter now with 1 link or even no link except the spam link in their homepage) but I’m getting a few hundred already in a span of hours when I used to have that amount in days. Grrr. Waiting and hoping that it will be released soon.

Thanks for making the plugins!

That is great… if you’re not touching the DB it is perfect

Let me know when you want me to begin testing.

Thanks for the offer to beta test it. I have included you in the list.

> being free / paid.
I haven’t decided yet. I will decide it based on the amount of effort we put in. Most of my plugins are free. At this stage of development I can release it for free, however with source code obscured to hinder spammers. However if I decide to include more capabilities to provide more comprehensive coverage from live human spammers, then I may charge a nominal fee.

It is designed to be the very first, and hopefully only required, line of defense, without requiring any database queries. The only query we use so far is to save the statistics. So it not just stops spams but also saves several SQL queries that are required for a normal comment processing.

Sounds good. Makes sense that you don’t discuss the technical details at all.

Posted a comment in your new post today about it being free / paid.

Btw, if you need a beta tester count me in. I’ve got SK2 on all my blogs, so you can see if your plugin plays along with that as well.

> Does this include trackbacks as well?
Yes, it does.

> Also, is there a way to check if there is a false positive?

One simple way is to have a feedback form for users to let you know if they faced any problems commenting. The technology has been designed to make it virtually impossible to trigger false positives.

> Any release date planned?
I plan to test it on our blogs for few weeks and with any beta testers to iron out the kinks, if any. So far I am very excited at its uncanny accuracy.

BTW: It works fine in conjunction with other spam prevention techniques like Akismet too.

I am somewhat hesitant in discussing the technical details in a public blog because fighting spammers is game which both sides can play. While we can observe spam bots and create technologies to stop them cold, they too can learn from available code and discussions and adapt they engines. In such a game (or fight) every bit of help counts, even “security by obscurity”

Already my MySQL server load has started to come down.

Hi,
Any insight on how the comment blocks out spam completely? Does this include trackbacks as well?

Also, is there a way to check if there is a false positive?

Any release date planned?