Comments on: Akismet Cracked Again - Comments Require Login

By: May C

May C — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:04:05 +0000

Thanks again, John for the link to the plugin. It’s amazing! I have not seen a single spam in the Akisimet folder (and I always get annoyed when I find them) so you can understand how happy I am now. I didn’t like Bad Behavior because it was blocking a lot of non robots and I was still getting tons of spam comments anyway. Thanks again! No Bad Behavior and no spam. Woohoo!

By: John

John — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:42:52 +0000

I installed the captcha plugin over a month ago. I think I have had two spam messages since then… Both were caught by Akismet.

By: Rob Hyndman

Rob Hyndman — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:16:20 +0000

Excellent - I’ll check it out.

By: May C

May C — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 04:14:32 +0000

Thanks to John’s referral of the captcha plugin, I have discovered that I didn’t need Bad Behavior anymore. It’s amazing how well this plugin works! I no longer have any spam comments in the spam folder at all and it’s such a breath of fresh air! I couldn’t believe it! I used to have to delete over several hundred spam comments in the spam folder that Akisimet and SK2 has found and it was annoying to have to go through them all to make sure no legit comments were caught there. Now, it’s nothing!

Thanks again!

By: John

John — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:02:30 +0000

You need BOTH… lol

By: Rob Hyndman

Rob Hyndman — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:46:07 +0000

Yes, although I had turned Akismet off as well and that wasn’t a great idea. So I’m running both.

By: May C

May C — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:53:01 +0000

So, you’re running this new captcha plugin fine and no problems with spam? I may want to check it out then.

By: Rob Hyndman

Rob Hyndman — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:58:56 +0000

Excellent idea. I’ll try to figure something out that has staying power :)

By: John

John — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:27:47 +0000

You can change the captcha words in the plugin’s php file… I changed all mine to reflect my team spirit, and then my team left the building… lol

By: John

John — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 02:51:09 +0000

You edit the custom_anti_spam.php to change/add your own captcha words… On my site I changed them all to OILERS’ related entries.

Too bad the OILERS went down!! I guess plugging, plug-inning them didn’t help.