Todd Sampson

Dad, Sailor, Tech Entrepreneur

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Monday, 03.24.08

Controlling Blog Comment Spam

Comment spam on my blog is driving me nuts!!!  I have never let a single spam comment through moderation, yet the spam comments outnumber real comments at least 10-to-1.

I just installed Akismet — hope it helps.  Any other recommendations for controlling spam on a Wordpress blog?

by Todd Sampson · Tags: Blogging

3 responses so far ↓

  • 1 David Cohen // Mar 24, 2008 at 8:33 pm

    Duh. Intense Debate.

  • 2 Josh Fraser // Mar 24, 2008 at 9:37 pm

    Try Intense Debate. They did wonders for cutting down my spam — not to mention being an all-round better way to do comments.

  • 3 Todd Sampson // Mar 24, 2008 at 11:01 pm

    Thank you both for the completely unbiased comments. ;)

    - T

    P.S. Yes, I know I need to try out Intense Debate (and Disqus as well to be fair)… And, I know this sucks coming from a MyBlogLog guy, but do you have any plans for a non-JavaScript version of the service? I do like the good comments getting indexed on the site.

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