Comments on: Hello Askimet, Goodbye SK2! Thanks for all the Fish

By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:31:23 +0000

Thanks Dave! WP-ban looks like a nice one for the frequent spammers club.

By: Dave Ferguson

Dave Ferguson — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:14:28 +0000

I’ve had Akismet for two years. A little over a year ago, I added a plugin that lets me ban by IP address ( http://lesterchan.net/wordpress/readme/wp-ban.html ).

I’m not technical enough to know if that’s overkill, but in less than a year I’ve had over 1,200 hits via the ban. I reset the counter every 500 or so. of the 220 currently showing, 102 come from the same IP address, so I figure it can’t hurt.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:21:10 +0000

You won’t regret it. I switched from SK2 to Askimet 4 months ago, and never looked back.

By: Cole

Cole — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:03:29 +0000

I had to change to Askimet about a year ago … my SK2 was getting hammered on the database side and kept shutting my blog down. My host was complaining about the number of database calls it was making. At any rate, Askimet has been a far better solution for me.

By: D'Arcy Norman

D'Arcy Norman — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:44:15 +0000

hey – I can’t say I blame you. Some apostrophed edtech geek with a history of gumming up the works, vs. hot SL rave dancer… but I’ll take the case of salsa… ;-)

By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 02:40:08 +0000

Well, she is prettier…

I could never figure out the logic where SK2 tossed the captcha and you getting a marginal score made no sense since you have been my most prolific commenter for 3 years running.

So how can I make it up? Shall I ship a crate of salsa to Calgary?

By: D'Arcy Norman

D'Arcy Norman — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:44:15 +0000

sure… SK2 throws me into captcha limbo for ages, and you tell me to change my name. Jen gets the captcha once and you switch to akismet… I know when an amigo has been replaced…

By: Mathew

Mathew — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:32:13 +0000

I recently switched to askimet. I found that it wasn’t working very well at first but it has gotten better as I’ve used it so that now I don’t get any. Good luck.

By: Richard Saling

Richard Saling — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:27:27 +0000

I am on WordPress until I get enough readers to justify getting my own domain and hosting on a different server. Nonetheless, I use askimet and I still check periodically and found it has only caught a fraction of legitimate comments and labeled them as spam compared to the amount of acttual spam it has caught.