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a lot of spam, despite of akismet plugin and honeypot in contact form - vincent3569 - 2013-05-07
hi
despite of akismet plugin and honeypot in comment form, I have a lot of spam :-(
in a first time, it seems the honeypot doesn't work anymore (maybe, the hidden field is too easy to detect by spammers).
in a second time, I do not know why akismet is so fooled by spams that seem easy to detect.
I do not have a time-out of the akismet server, but I have a response indicating that the message is not spam.
any idea to improve comment form and akismet plugin ?
a lot of spam, despite of akismet plugin and honeypot in contact form - acrylian - 2013-05-07
You might be getting human spam as we do on the forum every day. I read that in some countries I won't name people more or less work in kind of factories just for sending spam...
Against human spam the honey pot is of course useless. To my knowlege akismet maintains a catalogue of spam that it checks against. It probably has a hard time to catch up these days.
Other possibility the Akismet spam plugin for Zenphoto is not working correctly anymore..;-) Did they maybe change some API or so that could affect that?
a lot of spam, despite of akismet plugin and honeypot in contact form - sbillard - 2013-05-07
There is also a honeypot plugin zenHttpbl written by one of our contributors that blocks known spammer IP addresses.
a lot of spam, despite of akismet plugin and honeypot in contact form - vincent3569 - 2013-05-08
Quote:Other possibility the Akismet spam plugin for Zenphoto is not working correctly anymore..;-) Did they maybe change some API or so that could affect that?
of course, that is a way I would explore too.
Is there anybody who use my plugin and have the same problen than me ?
a lot of spam, despite of akismet plugin and honeypot in contact form - micheall - 2013-05-09
vincent I'd be interested to see if zenHttpbl helps you. I don't really have much in the way of spam on my site. But I think that's mainly because I have FB comments. Give the zenHttpbl plugin a shot and see if it works for you.
http://inthemdl.net/pages/zenhttpbl
a lot of spam, despite of akismet plugin and honeypot in contact form - bic - 2013-05-13
Hi vincent, not really "a lot of spam", just 2 messages both from a single IP. It was clearly human spam, whit content appropriated for the images where the comments were posted and just a link to a website in the author field. I contacted the admin of the site linked and I didn't get any new spam since then.
a lot of spam, despite of akismet plugin and honeypot in contact form - vincent3569 - 2013-05-14
@micheall :
I will have the following tests :
- no plugin enabled (akismet and zenHttpbl) : I'll be polluted but it is necessary for you and for me
- only akismet plugin enabled
- only zenHttpbl plugin enabled
- all plugins enabled (akismet and zenHttpbl)
a lot of spam, despite of akismet plugin and honeypot in contact form - micheall - 2013-05-15
Excellent! Let me know how it works out!