Spam Karma – Impressive so far

By Luke

This is somewhat a follow up of my last post when I first installed Spam Karma. As you can ‘probably’ say with the title, i’m quite glad on how spam is being handled with the Spam Karma plugin.

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Based on my previous solution for comment spam, Akismet, I no longer have to sieve through hundreds of comment spam everyday to find that one legit comment. Spam Karma conveniently blacklists any comment spam and sends any ‘suspected’ legit comments to be moderated by me which is a very small amount of comments relatively.

Also, since comments are automatically filtered if suspected as spam it could lead to the same problem i had with Akismet of losing those valuable legit comments so I headed to the ‘recent spam harvest’ section and monitored the comments to find out that not a single legit comment was in the blacklist.

In my first post, my main issue with Spam karma based on my first impressions was the Spam Karma link being in the manage section instead of the comments section (not much of a big deal anyway right?). WordPress came to the rescue for this issue with their new WordPress 2.7 which lets me visit the Spam Karma panel with just one link from my dashboard.

I really would recommend Spam Karma as of now to anyone with a wordpress blog. If you have a blog on wordpress and fed up of the false positives factor i suggest you give spam karma a test drive. I doubt you will regret it.

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4 Comments so far

Karma Koh Samui July 2007 December 18, 2008 8:18 am

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Chicago cancer December 18, 2008 8:47 am

I've been using Spam Karma for a bit and it works pretty well. I too have yet to have a legit comment filtered out but I guarantee it will happen one day, I'm not too worried about it. I switched from the most popular one to Spam Karma, which I'm willing to bet once people realize it's actually a good plugin, will become the most popular plugin.

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matt@Birmingham Escorts Services agency May 23, 2009 1:20 pm

pretty significant tool…thanks for sharing!!!

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Beate March 9, 2011 7:37 pm

Another plugin i can recommend is the anti-spam-bee. ich use it for my wp-blog and it works pretty good!

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