Re:Should I use delegated or native comments for my niche co...
by matvoz on Friday November 14, 2014 @05:30PM
(#8609901)
Did you have auto-aprove comments? AA is a spammers heaven, and they will walk the extra mile if they find that kind of a CMS. Even if you have no-follow links.
Very nice initiative for the spam-fight though. How high is your success rate? Do you use any blueprints for spun comments?
Re:Should I use delegated or native comments for my niche co...
by stevekemp on Friday November 14, 2014 @06:15PM
(#8610106)
I'm not sure what you mean by "auto-approve" - There are plugins for things like wordpress which will junk comments automatically, solely on the result of the test, but others are more fine-grained. (The API does allow whitelisting/blacklisting by IP, etc.)
The success rate is pretty fluid but about 80% of comments submitted were judged to be spam today. Whether there are too many false negatives/positives is hard for me to say ..
Re:Should I use delegated or native comments for my niche co...
by matvoz on Saturday November 15, 2014 @09:51AM
(#8611765)
Auto-approve - comments in blog show up immediately without moderation or approval.
Good luck with fighting spam. There are never enough of you!
Re:Should I use delegated or native comments for my niche co...
by CoreSet on Friday November 14, 2014 @05:12PM
(#8609824)
Interesting, thanks for responding!
Are there any other forum moderation tools you would recommend (not competitors, obviously)? I'm curious what else is available to the homebrewer.
But I started the project when a custom CMS of mine (more or less) started getting added to the spammer-lists. It seems like it's only a matter of time these days until people find your site and submit 10-500 comments a day. Some I can see are clearly bots, or compromised IPs, others are clearly humans (presumably paid very cheaply).