Once More Into The Breach
OK, now I’m trying Akismet, which is supposed to be non-hostile. One of the good things is that it doesn’t just delete what it considers spam, but puts it in a folder where I can see it. That means, if you get picked on, I can get the comment back and know there is a problem. The last program just deleted it unless you turned on a log. You had to download the log file to see what it was deleting.
Somewhere there is a happy/golden median that dumps the major offenders without junking actual comments.
Update: So far Akismet hasn’t dumped anything into the spam folder that wasn’t spam after 24 hours in operation.
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Askimet is what wordpress.com itself uses as their spam filter. It seems to work. I do occasionally get a message dumped into the spam folder that doesn’t belong there, but once I hoist it out, future messages from that person tend not to end up there.
Now to try a zombie joke. Q: Why did the redneck zombie stand in the middle of the road in front of a car? A: He forgot how to get to the other side of the road.
Okay, not funny. But let’s see what Askimet thinks about zombies :).
Spamshield just issued an update today that seems to be addressing the exact problem that I was experiencing here. They said that it was occurring on sites that assigned permalinks to comments and broken comments into pages, which would be a lot sites since those most be the defaults, because I don’t remember changing either of those settings and that’s how this site is working.
I’ll keep updating the plugin, but only until I get a feel for Akismet. If Akismet works for me, I won’t change.
I don’t understand why it let Ellroon through and then nailed the rest of us. I don’t think ‘zombie’ was tripwire, it must be our sentence structure.