Well, Spam Karma 2, Bad Behavior, and CJD Spam Nuke are now all disabled in favor of Matt’s new Akismet spam plugin. It uses the spam stopping capabilities leveraged on WordPress.com to filter all comments and decide whether or not they’re “approved,” “held for moderation,” or “spam.” We’ll see how it goes for a few days.
Hm, disabling Bad Behavior might not be such a good idea.
Thanks – I actually found that post on your WP.com blog soon after I wrote this and BB is back and running in full force here.
Let me know how that goes. Spam on my blog is reaching a fever pitch.
In a single word, based on the last 24 hours alone – amazing. I’ve had only one comment that was spam make it to my “moderation queue” – the rest were all flagged and binned as spam. All 385 of them. Bad Behavior is still enabled though, and over the course of my testing with it and Spam Karma 2 last week, BB was cutting out roughly 100 or so comments per day before they even make it to the spam filters. That was running BB 1.2.2 and I can only imagine that it’s cutting out even more than that now with BB being updated to 1.2.3.
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