Not working as well as it used to.

  • Resolved purrdesign

    (@purrdesign)


    10 years, 10 months ago

    I absolute love this plugin and have been using it for years. Initially it reduced my comment spam from thousands per week to just a handful. A lifesaver, really!

    However recently it appears the spammers have really picked up the pace. NoSpamNX is still blocking upwards of 700 comments per day, but hundreds more are getting through regardless. Between this and Akismeta they are being flagged as spam, at least, but it’s a pain and a drag on my database to have to clear out thousands of spam comments on a regular basis.

    I don’t want to abandon this plugin but I think some updates are in order to prevent this new influx of spam. Any ideas?

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/nospamnx/

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  • Plugin Author foobar2022

    (@kubi23)

    There’s no doubt that spambots have picked up pace. But there is little room for optimization in the plugin itself, as the goal of nospamnx was no server side checking, no extra input field, no ban of ip range (unless you want it via the blacklist), etc.

    What I can recommend is using the Blacklist and check if you use a theme which has the same functionality as a standard wordpress theme (see FAQ).

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