Comments on: False Positives and Better Akismet Spam Management

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Wp Wordpress » Blog Archive » False Positives of Spam Management — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 17:54:26 +0000

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By: Maki

Maki — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:41:52 +0000

Spending two hours going through Spam is a horrible way to spend time. On another note, Andy Beard recently wrote a similar article on Akismet and spam management that is worth reading.

By: HART (1-800-HART)

HART (1-800-HART) — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:39:20 +0000

have you done any searches for 1800HART in your spam pages? I know I’ve lost many comments here. But, after a while I figured .. it was just an impulse comment anyway – if it was really contributing to the betterment of life I would just let you know and ask to be un-spam-detected (which I have done in the past).

I don’t mind being a statistic in people’s footer. Often.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:01:36 +0000

I've been using Spam Arrest for a couple of years now. It really works for me and it seems more and more people I know keep joining it, I guess more and more people like me are just getting to much spam for any filter to work. You should check it out if you haven't already its Spam Arrest.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:35:13 +0000

Oh, I forgot. Check out Akismet Auntie Spam Firefox-Greasemonkey Page Viewing Script by my buddy, Engtech.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 23:33:51 +0000

I’ve been begging for a per page delete for ages. It’s critical to the success of handling that many comment spams.

After a trip recently, and several days offline, I found over 6,000 comment spams. When the paging feature goes into the hundreds, there is no way to keep up with all of that. I do the same searching and other techniques you mentioned, but I fear that some are still caught. Still, 4-8 found in 3000+ is pretty good comment spam catching.

By: Everton

Everton — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:51:23 +0000

I’ve just given up on clearing out the spam as I get so much now. My priority is just making sure none sneaks through.

By: False Positives of Spam Management by Blogging Pro

False Positives of Spam Management by Blogging Pro — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:52:17 +0000

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By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:13:19 +0000

Akismet is one of the best SPAM filters out there. However, there are a number of obvious improvements that can be made to:
- Improve accuracy of filtering
- Making it easy to scan through and separate valid comments from true spam

When looking at a site for a different product, they had an interesting approach where people could register and then post “proposed product enhancements”. More interesting, one go could through the existing list and “vote” for developments of interest. This enabled the user community to official register their wish-list and also, as a group, to prioritise them. I hope that Akismet and other products will take a similar approach. That way, rather than posting them on a blog like this (which is admirable, given the absence of other formal feedback mechanisms) one can feed direct into the design community.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:07:30 +0000

I think thats a great idea, at least a filter or two you can run the list of spam through to thin the list down ie

Delete/hide spam with more than 6 links or any of ‘these’ words (the general spamish words) or from know spammy ips/emails.

or just order by spamification so all of the lease spammy float to the top and can be plucked out easier :)

Great post