Comments on: Managing Spam Comments In Wordpress and Joomla

By: Kazim

Kazim — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:40:04 +0000

use wordpress not joomla is true. akismet is great to manage spams. Thank you for this entry

By: Start a home business

Start a home business — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:35:48 +0000

JomComment is a commercial product so it’s really fighting spam with a cost.

By: BigBear

BigBear — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:36:19 +0000

Heya Pembaris – feel free to email me – my contact should be above the comments on this page.

By: pembaris crew

pembaris crew — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:50:48 +0000

For Joomla (JomComment in specific), they have some solid spam detector engine since for post that has replicated words or copy pasted would be filtered out. Obviously it’s not totally spam-proof, but it’s making spammer’s work (or life) much harder than it normally would be

anyway I was looking for a space to suggest a topic for you, and where could I found that space within this site?

By: BigBear

BigBear — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:22:52 +0000

Hey Pembaris,
Thx for that update – I didn’t realise JomComment had integrated Akismet – As MJ pointed out above, Akismet itself is not free either, so I guess you’d be paying for the commenting system and then another license fee for Akismet – which FYI appears to be $5 USD per month if you run a commercial blog that makes $500+ USD per month. If you are an enterprise they have different, more expensive, plans.

By: pembaris crew

pembaris crew — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:17:38 +0000

Hi BigBear, I am using JomComment for Joomla and it has full-blown Anti-Spam tab and Akismet is just one of the options. I dont know if your comment system allows this thumbnail, but have a look on the screenshot below to give a few ideas on how it looks like on backend config. But the downside, JomComment is a commercial product so it's really fighting spam with a cost. Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!

By: BigBear

BigBear — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:13:51 +0000

Hey MJ,
You’ve just enlightened me to something I should have looked more closely at – and you would know being the open source guy.
I will review the Akismet license again and have a look at blogspam.
Tx

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:00:19 +0000

I wouldn’t implement Akismet because it wasn’t free for commercial sites when I last checked.

I’d implement blogspam.net (there’s already drupal and wordpress plugins) or antispam.typepad.com in preference to Akismet.