Battle Testing Spam Karma
Now let’s really run Spam Karma through its paces!
I’m going to have it protect GFMorris.com—the Three Strikes attempt wasn’t acting much different than what I presently had—and I’ve removed all other protections. I even cleaned out my moderation keys data [not before saving it to a text file on the server, of course!].
Let’s see what this thing can really do, eh? In bad attacks, GFMorris.com will see hundreds of spam attempts an hour.
Update: Two minutes after activation, and two attempts trapped already. :chuckle:
Posted January 6th, 2005 in WordPress.
Geof: it may be that all of my spams were trackback spams, or pseudo-trackback spams, and I didn’t have the filter trackback spams thingie enabled.
Let me know how SK works out for you; maybe I’m just really screwing something up.
January 7th, 2005 at 12:16 amWell, I haven’t had a TB spammer since I enabled SK, but it has successfully smacked every one of the few-hundred attempts lobbed at it.
January 7th, 2005 at 7:52 amMy Present Comment Spam Toolkit
January 7th, 2005 at 2:39 pmWell, the battle testing went okay, but I ended up wanting to add back my other methods for battling comment spam in addition to SpamKarma. The cornucopia of methods I was using before was a bit better at controlling TrackBack spam, and I don’t want …