problem with comments/spams

any of you have problems commenting these days? uh oh if you have, you can’t tell me via comments here. well then, do you mind contacting me via the feedback form here? let me know if you have problems and what problems.

you see, i think the problem started when i try to use various spam er… what you call… spam fighter plugin. i used to receive lots of spams that went to my moderation box, and these spams comments were posted in all over the various posts, some to my posts as far back as a year or 2 years!! one day i will receive about 10 or so… once even received about 50 in a day!! all along i have been using akismet. so i was beginning to wonder i still receiving so many spams, is akismet working any good.

i was recommended 2 other spam plugin. first i used the ‘did you pass maths’ plugin where you have to add a simple sum as the security code for comments to go through. then i realise this is not so noticeable so i used the ‘anti spam image‘ spam plugin, where you’ll have to type some words or letters and these are in colours so it’ll be more noticeable.

however the main problem with both of these is that once you forgotten to enter the security code and asked to click on back button on your browser to go back to comments, you will lose all your typed comments! this is no good esp. for people who type some long comments.

so i think now i’m going to disable security code all together and use a better (as a friend recommended) spam plugin – spam karma. hopefully this will solve my problems of no spams coming in and thus i don’t have to let commenter enter some security codes ("mai fun" lah, likedat!).

anyway i’m only starting to use spam karma so i’m afraid that there might be some teething problems here and there. if you don’t see your comments going through, don’t fret ah, it is somewhere around… i’ll release it (unless it is spam!).  spam karma is said to be powerful but sometimes too powerful will scare a non IT savvy person like me! like maybe i don’t know how to do the configuration or what… like some legitimate comments might be consider spam too! anywhere i’m keeping my fingers crossed this won’t happen.

oh yeah i hope some of you if you had ‘eat full nothing to do’ (that is extremely NOT going to bother you) can help me out with feedback… try commenting and let me know what happens. arigato!!