Spam or not spam, that is the question…

What is the plugin and how does it make that decision?

Like I said:

De latter comes up with a captcha image only when Akismet says a comment is spam.

Only when Akismet says a comment is spam, then a Captcha image appears.

And noone cracked the Captcha yet (and if they did, they’d still end up in the spam queue), so I’m a happy man.

Oops… didn’t see that earlier post of yours, Roy. Sorry. ??

Hrm. I wonder why…

I mean, I have a grand total of two users, out of a few hundred regulars, who get punted to Akismet, and both are for their own mistakes. So two users out of the thousands of spammers (well, not even a thousand – maybe 30 a week MAX and that’s a weird week)? Seems that it’s an extra layer that serves little purpose.

And yes, I do manually skim the spam queue every day or so. If I had a plugin that whitelisted those two users, I’d be happy!

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/spam-free-wordpress/

No CAPTCHA, cookies, or Javascript needed. Blocks all automated spam with zero false positives, and has a blocklist to block manual spam.

Hm, it’s a new method. Interesting, but I prefer to have my commenters not have any extra ‘work’. This in combination with the Conditional Captcha method (so, only a password when it’s possibly spam) would be quite something.

Displaying the password field only if something is possibly spam means there will be false positives, which means the same comments marked as spam before would still be marked as spam. In other words, it would be no different than anything else available right now.

With Spam Free WordPress either the password entered by a human is correct or not. No false positives. No other spam plugins needed, not even Akismet.

It’s an interesting concept. Though Todd, you linked to it once ?? Now you’re bordering on spamming (or beating us over the head). Trust folks to read and think.

If people don’t want their users to do extra work, even if it means entering a password for a post, then they don’t ?? You gotta accept that and move on.

If you read Roy’s comments above, he says he is currently using 4 different plugins to combat comment spam. Ipstenu, you claim to be using 3 plugins. I have been using only one since September of 2007.

If I read Roy’s comment correctly he suggested combining the approach used in Spam Free WordPress with Conditional Captcha, so I attempted to point out this would sour the effectiveness of Spam Free WordPress.

I utilized the link feature in replying the second time to encourage Roy to try the plugin, before making suggestions on how it should work without saying that explicitly.

Your comment about accepting other’s choices and moving on was a bit harsh. I thought this forum was to help people, not funnel them into using only the three Automattic plugins mentioned twice on this page: Akismet, Cookies for Comments, and Bad Behavior, so now three times.

I do realize you (Ipstenu) mentioned refusing to use CAPTCHA, so my concept probably rubs you the wrong way. That is no reason to backhand me with a :).

To leave a comment on WordPress a human has to type in a username and a password. In the real world readers do not object to using only a password they can read while remaining anonymous, especially when it saves them from having to signup then sign in to an account on that blog just to leave a comment.

If it were true that having to type in a password would stop comments, no one would be using this WordPress forum.

I just meant linking to your plugin in two sequentuial posts was a bit much, that’s all, Todd. Don’t use WP.org forums to advertise/sell/pitch your plugins, please.

[deleted what I wrote]

The ORIGINAL post was ‘Is this spam’.

That was answered. This is closed.