Uneasy Rhetoric

Posts like this one get my ire up. The poster complains because Spam Karma, a very effective anti-spam plugin for WordPress, determined that he might be a spammer and made him jump through additional hoops.

I understand the frustration, and as a Spam Karma user who has had friends get stuck in SK limbo, I empathize. However, I don’t really know what else to do. When my blog gets comment spammed, it gets hit hard - 300 to 1000 messages over the course of a few hours, sometimes minutes. I can’t afford the time it takes to moderate all of that crap, and I don’t want it sitting on my blog for any length of time. I do want to continue allowing comments, and I don’t want to moderate every single comment.

Unfortunately, the best anti-spam measures for blogs are still those that may require a user to go through a few hoops, be it captcha or, god forbid, registration.

But the person making the above post wants to have it all. He doesn’t want spam and he wants and easily commented blog. So do I, but right now it doesn’t work that way.

I’m going to try some other possibilities, including using WordPress’ built-in word kill feature (if a word appears in a comment, that comment is killed), but I expect I’ll be returning to Spam Karma.