how can i see Blocked Comment Spam?

Spam Free WordPress does not write spam to the database because that would use CPU cycles and RAM on the server that should be available to run the blog, so blocking the spam means it is killed before it can use up any resources. This means there is no way for the spam to slow down the blog, and also no way to view the spam that is blocked, but it’s spam and that is the one thing on a blog that no one wants to see, especially the administrator.

If that’s the case, how do you validate that what is blocked is actually spam? Seems there should at least be an option to store the “spam” into the database, marked as spam, so that an administrator can properly verify.

Also, this plugin blocks spam by generating a “password” for an anonymous user to copy & paste to validate that they are human. So, how does that stop someone that scripts a desktop browser to post spam? Or someone that scripts cURL to post spam? It seems all they would have to do is set the script to pull the “password” from one field, into another, correct?

Comment validation is all or nothing. Either the correct password is used, or it is considered spam. Anyone who types in the incorrect password gets an error message to go back and try again, and when they do their message is still there, so they are only left to type in, or copy and paste, the correct password in to submit their message. Allowing comments that don’t type in the correct password to still store their message in the database would defeat the entire purpose of a spam blocking plugin. This is anonymous password authentication, not a filter, so an incorrect password is considered an invalid and unauthorized login attempt.

The field that contains the password has no html identification, making it very difficult to find it in the form with a script. Although this approach has so far eliminated any script from bypassing the Spam Free WordPress security, there are new strategies that will be implemented in the upcoming version.