Comments on: Spam Karma 2 Is Da Boss http://cogdogblog.com/2005/07/25/sk2/ Alan Levine's space for barking about and playing with technology Fri, 25 May 2012 14:40:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: myownworld.org » Blog Archive » I dont like spam, canned or otherwise http://cogdogblog.com/2005/07/25/sk2/comment-page-1/#comment-1802 myownworld.org » Blog Archive » I dont like spam, canned or otherwise Sun, 04 Sep 2005 02:14:58 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=1019#comment-1802 [...] It’s chock full of options and neat ways to rid blogs of comment spam, and it’s been praised very well. [...] [...] It’s chock full of options and neat ways to rid blogs of comment spam, and it’s been praised very well. [...]

]]> By: Alan http://cogdogblog.com/2005/07/25/sk2/comment-page-1/#comment-1633 Alan Sat, 30 Jul 2005 14:58:08 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=1019#comment-1633 Thanks for the tip, Doug. I would say whatever you can get to stomp spam is positive news. However, I cannot say that your experience is a side by side contest... I too am not sure how plugins that do similar tasks work under the hood, but I am betting that Bad Behavior loads first because of alphabetical ordering of your plugins. Being effective, there would be nothing left for SK2 to work on. A better test would be two different versions of your blog with each using a different spam plugin, but that might be fallible too as your established blog is already on the spam bot list of targets. Regardless, if its trapping spam, yahoooooo! But rest assured, it never ends- the spammers are evoloving more quickly than the spam tools. Thankfully there are the generous folks out there willing to build and share the tools. Thanks for the tip, Doug. I would say whatever you can get to stomp spam is positive news.

However, I cannot say that your experience is a side by side contest… I too am not sure how plugins that do similar tasks work under the hood, but I am betting that Bad Behavior loads first because of alphabetical ordering of your plugins. Being effective, there would be nothing left for SK2 to work on.

A better test would be two different versions of your blog with each using a different spam plugin, but that might be fallible too as your established blog is already on the spam bot list of targets.

Regardless, if its trapping spam, yahoooooo! But rest assured, it never ends- the spammers are evoloving more quickly than the spam tools. Thankfully there are the generous folks out there willing to build and share the tools.

]]> By: Doug http://cogdogblog.com/2005/07/25/sk2/comment-page-1/#comment-1632 Doug Sat, 30 Jul 2005 08:12:11 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=1019#comment-1632 I was getting blasted with spam a few months ago. I installed SK2 as well, and took great pleasure in reading the logs. It worked great. Then I got an idea to try another spam filter, <a href="http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/" rel="nofollow">Bad Behavior</a>, alongside SK2 as a sort of contest to see which would intervene first. I understand next to nothing about how these things work. It's been a few months now and SK2 has not logged a single spam attempt. Bad Behavior is the heavy hitter. I think of it as a moat full of crocs around an electric fence with a gate wide open for friends to freely enter...spam-free for months! I was getting blasted with spam a few months ago. I installed SK2 as well, and took great pleasure in reading the logs. It worked great. Then I got an idea to try another spam filter, Bad Behavior, alongside SK2 as a sort of contest to see which would intervene first. I understand next to nothing about how these things work. It’s been a few months now and SK2 has not logged a single spam attempt. Bad Behavior is the heavy hitter. I think of it as a moat full of crocs around an electric fence with a gate wide open for friends to freely enter…spam-free for months!

]]> By: D'Arcy Norman http://cogdogblog.com/2005/07/25/sk2/comment-page-1/#comment-1613 D'Arcy Norman Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:13:25 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=1019#comment-1613 woah. as I was writing that response, a spam was caught with a karma rating of -76998.3!!! That's some seriously bad karma. The kind that probably brings down the russian mob with a pillowcase full of doorknobs... woah. as I was writing that response, a spam was caught with a karma rating of -76998.3!!! That’s some seriously bad karma. The kind that probably brings down the russian mob with a pillowcase full of doorknobs…

]]> By: D'Arcy Norman http://cogdogblog.com/2005/07/25/sk2/comment-page-1/#comment-1612 D'Arcy Norman Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:12:08 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/?p=1019#comment-1612 Yeah. SK2 totally rocks! Thanks for the tip-off! My spams are averaging -5490.2, while actual comments average 25. That's a pretty clear delta in karma between the humans and the roaches... Yeah. SK2 totally rocks! Thanks for the tip-off! My spams are averaging -5490.2, while actual comments average 25. That’s a pretty clear delta in karma between the humans and the roaches…

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