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Akismet

Preventing Comment Spam

July 13, 2007

The recent problem of spam comments bypassing the Akismet filter made me realize that its too bad to rely completely on one service.
For one I spent considerable amount of valuable time deleting comments. The other problem was created when these spam comments made their way as “subscription comments” and I got many mails from users [...]

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What’s with Akismet ?

July 10, 2007

Akismet, one of the best anti-spam webservice has helped lot of websites including mine in identifying and blocking spam comments and trackbacks. However from the past few days, I am spending more time deleting spam comments and these comments are also making way as comment subscription notifications.

The comment text is generally the same: “Nice“, “Interesting” [...]

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Akismet Admin Page

February 5, 2007

Akismet, one of the best anti-spam webservices has helped lot of websites in identifying and blocking spam comments and trackbacks.
However the Admin page of the Akismet plugin in Wordpress has always been annoying.
Prior to version 2.0, all the comments caught by Akismet Webservice were shown in a single page.
In version 2.0 the comments are displayed [...]

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Merry for spammers in Orkut

January 15, 2007

Orkut, the Internet social network service run by Google allows you to post personal or professional information and link to friends and acquaintances.
The service which was available only by invitation was recently opened up for all users. Also unlike other services you don’t need a Google Account to access Orkut.
These are some of the [...]

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Bad Behavior

August 28, 2006

Spam in Blogs is one of the major problem faced by most of the blog publishers. It shouldn’t be confused with splogs (Spam Blogs) which is often used to increase the PageRank of the affiliated sites, get ad impressions from visitors and use the blog as a link outlet to get new sites indexed.
Comments [...]

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