That was the basic question of the research I did during the last days, greping through the logs to find some info to get an impression of the blacklists effect. Now I know, it isn’t in vain. If we’d say we have 10000 requests we would get about: 9000 Spam Comments 1000 Ham Comments 100 Reports
Tag: wp-blackcheck
The blacklist again…
It is wonderful if you know that a plan is working – especially if it’s your own one. Regarding the WP-Blackcheck plugin, it might even fot more here as I was observing less and less spam comments into the moderation queues of the sites I manage. To get some numbers I tried to deactivate a number of other […]
WP-Blackcheck – Statusreport
My Blacklist service is running for quite a while now and it it’s time to look at the result. Sure, it isn’t much as not many people provided feedback by reporting the IPs, but for now we have collected about 60 IP Addresses and the blogs hosted on my server haven’t had any spam in their queue except […]
WP-BlackCheck goes WP.org
During the last days I have sent out some preview versions of my plugin and got some feedback about the plugin which helped me getting things done. Due to the positive echo of various people, I am now posting it on wordpress.org. But I think it’s time now to tell you some of my ideas about the plugin […]
Together we’re stronger
I was fed up with the comment spam again as it’s me who has to check the akismet queue for false positives. So I have started preventing spam by doing various checks before handing the comment over to akismet – but it’s always a couple of them slipping through. The good thing was, that it’s always the same […]