Mullenweg on Comment spam |
Loading ...Sitting next to Scoble for Matt Mullenweg’s session on combating spam with Akismet. Free for non-personal blog and $5/month for those who make $500+. Scoble’s thoughts also blogged live on this same session here.
Matt didn’t care for the flower background, so he eventually nixed that in favor of writing on the whiteboard.
Having never met or seen Matt in person before I figured he would look younger (he is 21, I believe). Pictures make some people look younger online. I didn’t really learn anything new about Akismet from his presentation except that there is a new .NET API coming for Akismet and he feels their secret sauce for Akismet does a pretty good job at stopping most comment spam.
I mentioned to Matt that we’ve had problems with IRC logs get flagged erroneously as comment spam on my personal Wordpress blog. Anybody else using Akismet?
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Pingback by Presentation Response « Akismet — February 11, 2006 @ 3:36 pm PST
Yes, I used it for about three days, it blocked 54 spams and let through 1.
I switched to my own solution after that, took abou 20 minutes to write - I remain unconvinced that ‘context sniffing’ blog comments is the best way to stop automated spam, but then, i don’t have a PHD in this subject..
Comment by Steven Herod — February 12, 2006 @ 4:48 am PST
Nope, been using Spam Karma since I discovered it. I don’t think I’ve gotten more than 2 false positives in the course of almost 2 years. Link is at the bottom of my blog.
Comment by Scott — February 13, 2006 @ 11:01 am PST