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Comments - additions and spam protection


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PlanHQ

Community Member, 3 Posts

14 March 2007 at 1:51pm

*Spam Protection - Human Verification*
Have you thought about or do you have any spam protection on comments?

I've noticed one of our posts got over 600 spam comments, and a post on the new PlanHQ.com site has just got its first spam.

Requiring one of those human verification codes when you post would be great.

* Other*
* Add a link: So that the commentor name points back to the website in the link field, geat for google and linking together the blogosphere conversations
* Add new comment: This should go below the existing discussion to encourage people to read the discussion first then make their coment

cheers,

Tim.

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Sam

Administrator, 690 Posts

14 March 2007 at 4:23pm

There is some code to link into Kismet, but I think an account needs to be set up on a site by site basis.

Whoever it was who made this feature, can they post some instructions?

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Sigurd

Forum Moderator, 628 Posts

15 March 2007 at 9:33pm

You can see akismet in action at http://demo.silverstripe.com/blog

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Decisive Flow

Community Member, 73 Posts

16 March 2007 at 8:56am

Thanks for the link. If it wold be possible, could you make the documentation a little more detailed. I have no idea where in the config file to put the code, or where the config file is ( I assume it is the one under CMS)?

I have put my code in as follows (obviously substituting 'key' for our key):

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SSAkismet::setAPIKey('key');
SSAkismet::setSaveSpam(true);

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it doesn't seem to do anything when I add ?showspam=1 to either the end of the blog url or our main site url. Now I'm confused... Is there another step?

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Decisive Flow

Community Member, 73 Posts

27 March 2007 at 5:19pm

This is quite urgent as we have 900 or so spam comments and it's spiraling out of control. It looks like a simple fix, it just doesn't seem to do anything!

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Tim

Community Member, 201 Posts

27 March 2007 at 6:30pm

Edited: 27/03/2007 9:33pm

Hi Natalie

There are no 'quick fixes' for this. Even with the Akismet spam protection on our site, we are getting a good 20 - 30 spams a day which I delete several times a day.

We are going to need to introduce some sort of 'human verification' steps to prevent this.

In the mean time, I'd suggest you simply disable page comments (I've done this on a number of our heavily spammed pages)

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Decisive Flow

Community Member, 73 Posts

28 March 2007 at 4:15pm

yeah human verification looks like the best option... Between this blog and simple and loveable, sometimes you actually grind to a halt with stupid blog spam! Thanks for your help and hanging out for that verification...

P.S so does this mean out Akismet is working? because I still don't get the list of spam when I type in that URL...

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Decisive Flow

Community Member, 73 Posts

10 November 2008 at 9:45am

Hey,

I have another site with spam now. Am trying ot put akismet in but there don't appear to be any better instructions than before.

Why not list SS on this page: http://akismet.com/development/

Then you get some free publicity and make life much easier for those using ss as a blog!

Otherwise, the blogging function is so limited - my wordpress blog catches basically all spam comments

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