Spam spam spam spam

For some reason, we’ve seen a huge increase in spam recently — I’m not sure how many spams I’ve deleted in the last couple of days, but it’s probably over a thousand.

The more spam we get, the more likely it is that genuine comments that are accidentally caught by our spam-trap will get deleted along with the spam. To make this less likely, please let us know right away if you think a comment of yours may be stuck in the spam trap.

I know that our current anti-spam software — Akismet — has been crappy for a while. At this point, it’s basically impossible to post a link in comments without being mistaken for spam. I’m hoping to have time to deal with the problem, and institute a better spam solution, in mid-July.

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4 Responses to Spam spam spam spam

  1. Paul Winkler says:

    Hey Barry. Have you tried the math-spam plugin?
    Just google for “math spam plugin wordpress”.
    It’s had a pretty good track record on streetsblog.

  2. Ampersand says:

    I’ll take a look at it, thanks!

    I was also considering spam karma.

  3. do you have the settings under “discussions” set to 3 links before moderation? I’ve found that raising it to 4 or 5 helps.

  4. Ampersand says:

    I have it set to 12!

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