Comments on: WRECK (Wordpress Regular Expression Comment Killer) http://www.edcottrell.com/2008/07/06/wreck-wordpress-regular-expression-comment-killer/ musings of a conservative Texas attorney-to-be on law, faith, politics, technology, and life Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:53:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Dan Thies http://www.edcottrell.com/2008/07/06/wreck-wordpress-regular-expression-comment-killer/#comment-90070 Dan Thies Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:54:14 +0000 http://www.edcottrell.com/?p=521#comment-90070 Ed, thanks for this, it's been on my list for a while. I'm guessing I can cut the spam that passes through my other filters in half with this. As for Akismet, Brian, we had to give up on that after a week. I get hundreds of spam comments a day, sometimes more than a thousand, and finding the legitimate comments that landed in that giant Akismet bucket (it does happen) was completely impractical. Ed, thanks for this, it’s been on my list for a while. I’m guessing I can cut the spam that passes through my other filters in half with this.

As for Akismet, Brian, we had to give up on that after a week. I get hundreds of spam comments a day, sometimes more than a thousand, and finding the legitimate comments that landed in that giant Akismet bucket (it does happen) was completely impractical.

]]> By: Ed http://www.edcottrell.com/2008/07/06/wreck-wordpress-regular-expression-comment-killer/#comment-82082 Ed Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:59:40 +0000 http://www.edcottrell.com/?p=521#comment-82082 Actually, I do already use Akismet - it just misses around 30 or so comments per day (I get around 200 comment spams per day). So, I get 30 or so emails about approving the same, tired spams (French poker sites and insurance, mostly), every day. I do report the spam to Akismet, but it never seems to update fast enough to make a difference, and it has never adapted to the very simple pattern described above. Akismet is a huge help, to be sure - it catches about 85% of my spam, unaided. This plugin catches another 10% or so. The rest... that's life. Actually, I do already use Akismet - it just misses around 30 or so comments per day (I get around 200 comment spams per day). So, I get 30 or so emails about approving the same, tired spams (French poker sites and insurance, mostly), every day. I do report the spam to Akismet, but it never seems to update fast enough to make a difference, and it has never adapted to the very simple pattern described above. Akismet is a huge help, to be sure - it catches about 85% of my spam, unaided. This plugin catches another 10% or so. The rest… that’s life.

]]> By: Brian Hinkle http://www.edcottrell.com/2008/07/06/wreck-wordpress-regular-expression-comment-killer/#comment-82081 Brian Hinkle Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:20:09 +0000 http://www.edcottrell.com/?p=521#comment-82081 Why don't you just use Akismet? Just send all comments straight to the moderation queue if they're not a previously approved commenter, and let it screen out the majority (it works 99.9 pct of the time for me) - if any odd patterns show up that can be easily blocked by regexes, just report them as spam with about two or three clicks and then watch as within hours their system updates to catch that pattern. Why don’t you just use Akismet? Just send all comments straight to the moderation queue if they’re not a previously approved commenter, and let it screen out the majority (it works 99.9 pct of the time for me) - if any odd patterns show up that can be easily blocked by regexes, just report them as spam with about two or three clicks and then watch as within hours their system updates to catch that pattern.

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