Akismet Spam Prevention

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

Hasn't blocked anything yet -- and 1 or 2 have gotten past.
We'll have to wait & see if this pays off.

Actually, I caught one still in moderation in General Forum this morning before work. Counts for something, right?

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Billfred

Actually, I caught one still in moderation in General Forum this morning before work. Counts for something, right?

Sure does. Thanks for letting me know it's doing its job ..

I saw the thread, and saw you deleted it, but figured you just caught it before it was reported or something..

[Josh Hambright]

Brandon,

What about a 2 tiered approach, what if you also put in a simple captcha like the math captcha until someone had made 3 or 4 posts, just to slow them down enough to possibly trip up some of it. Or if we think it is actualy humans doing the footwork, install recaptcha, i'm no bot and I still struggle with those sometimes.

Also, it seems we haven't been hit very hard with spam in general the last few days, compared to how much we got at the beginning of the month it seems quiet, the real test will come when we get slammed again.


edit: just saw the other thread. boo, i'm to slow.