Getting spam comment is not a new to every blogger. To look at spammers activity WordPress has included Akismet Stats. As per Akismet Stats, Akismet has caught 41,576 spams at an overall accuracy rate of 99.823% for my blog Espreson.com. Now, if you look at overall global data of Akismet Stats, you will be amazed.
There is sharp increasing of Orange bar(Spam). Just look at the Live! Stats. So, Akismet is doing its business behind the scene.
To give extra protection, I implemented Captcha plug-ins. Still got unwanted messy comment from fake kind of e-mail ids. In my experience there is a drawback of implementing Captcha for blog. It sometime drives away visitors to post comment due to critical questions or unsolvable images.
So, What is the Best Way to handle Spam Comment?
My opinion says,
- Let Akismet or similar kind of spam protection plug-in do its business behind the scene. They works fine.
- Hold comment for moderation.
What is the benefit of “Holding comment for moderation”?
- Control of messy comments and get Hams(Legitimate Comment).
Now the question arises—“Holding comment for moderation” is the best way to get legitimate comment(Ham), what do you think?
About the Author
Sarbartha D
Administrator of the blog Espreson. Formed Espreson Media a Web Design Studio. Managing Twitglry.com an Open Platform for Twitter application developers. Tweeting @espreson
Very interesting and readable – did not know – thanks for sharing!
As you may know I use Akismet’s filter too and it works perfect to me as I get very few spam even if I don’t moderate. Some pass, but then I just delete them.
Btw: See my last post: May I ask for your support?
Great to hear that your blog has been nominated as Finalist in The Weblog Awards 2008.
It’s hard to find a good spam filter. I hate it when good traffic leaves comments and they are blocked. I personally approve all my comments but that would be a pain for very high traffic blogs. Great Post!
Spam Comments looks ugly. Those are stuffed with lots of links and unacceptable words. If your blog filled with this kind of comments then I think it will look messy.
Came here through ‘zementa’ plug-in’s related post
I thought I will see a good solution to this evil. I already moderate comments but that doesn’t seem to affect either bots or nowadays even human commentators who are probably just copy pasting generic comment praising my blog post or blog without bothering to read the content.
Akismet does it all in wordpress though it some times skips the spam comments the gibberish comments are always annoying to any blog owner you can do the best by checking them manually every day or upon a scheduled time for your comment moderation.
Comment moderation is the best option to handle the comment…