About Comment Spam
We used to review all of the comments caught by our spam filter before permanently deleting them, just in case a real comment was categorized as spam. It's gotten too overwhelming for us to continue to do that, however. Akismet does a great job of catching spam, and it's been rare when I've had to rescue a real comment from the spam list (however, it has happened a few times).
From now on I'm just deleting all spam that this blog receives. If you post a comment but it never shows up, send me an email with your comment and I'll try to post it myself.
I wish Mephisto had an "auto delete" option on spam so I didn't have to go into the admin interface and delete it all manually. Anyone know if there's a way I can do that? Maybe I'm just missing something?
There's no captcha that could help out? I guess it's been years since I have had to check if they are still effective or not...just my $0.02.
Why not use Defensio? It is way better than Akismet in terms of separating stuff on a spaminess level. From experience is also way more accurate (after the roughly 2 week learning period) and a Rails plugin exists for it already.
I've been using SimpleLog which tends to catch all the bad stuff for me, but I in the past I've just added a quick question ("type in 22+13", etc.) to the comments form to sift through it. It means you do less work as the author, and it usually combats spambots quite well. They can always target your site directly to attack that, but at that point they could do that with any other solution anyway.
I saw this posted on Boagworld and it seems like a viable option if you can add a dummy, "honeypot" form:
http://haacked.com/archive/2007/09/11/honeypot-captcha.aspx
I'd love to see a ReCaptcha (http://recaptcha.net/) plugin for Mephisto. It has worked well for me on other projects.
I've been testing out a few honeypot methods as well recently. Trying to find a better method though.
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