Comments on: Why did Typepad make a Wordpress Anti-Spam Plugin?

By: errikk

errikk — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:17:07 +0000

Spam is biggest problem.And because of spammers everytime when i want comment im thinking twice.As a blogger its makes me feel guilty sometimes.

By: Jon Moss

Jon Moss — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:32:41 +0000

Thanks Doug, I am not sure how it has mounted up so much, I just don’t fancy doing it manually!

Best wishes from England,

Jon

By: Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:25:20 +0000

Anil,

Thanks for letting us know – I didn’t stop to think about performance outside of how many spam comments you’re catching!

Do you have any statistics to support improved performance?

Thanks,
Doug

By: Anil

Anil — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:07:37 +0000

Simple answer, Doug, we did it because we wanted to help people block spam. And we thought we had something that was not just more free and more open, but better-performing as well. Easy!

By: Douglas Karr

Douglas Karr — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:21:46 +0000

Hi Jon,

My only advice is to run the latest version of WordPress. At least it’s ‘ajaxian’ in nature and allows the page to update on the fly as you mark items. Quite honestly, if it goes to Spam, I don’t review it – Akismet’s been working quite well!

Doug

By: Jon Moss

Jon Moss — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:51:38 +0000

Hmmm good point Doug!

As a quick aside, I have 2000+ comments waiting for moderation – Do you know a trick I can can the lot of them without wading through page by page!?!

Thanks!

Jon