Implemented AKISMET - SPAM Blocker

[Business Coach]

Wordpress uses Akismet

to auto block known spammers

any plans to integrate this

 

[steven s]

There is
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/8wayrun-com-xenutiles-tools.9754/page-4#post-139202

 

[AnthonyCea]

Been told many times it sucks for forums, try www.botscout.com and www.stopforumspam.com

 

[FredC]

There is
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/8wayrun-com-xenutiles-tools.9754/page-4#post-139202

I dont think that includes Akismet.

 

[jasetaro]

Been told many times it sucks for forums, try www.botscout.com and www.stopforumspam.com

I'm not sure I'd say it's sucks, but it does seem to generate more false positives and/or false negatives on forums than it does on blogs. I still think it's useful compliment to Stop Forum Stop or Bot Scout though... I'd rather spend a few minutes clearing the mod cue in the morning then dealing the fallout from the graphic porn spam slipped though during the though during the night.

 

[AnthonyCea]

There can be no 'graphic porn' if you pre-moderate all new member posts, you can do this easy by setting up user groups and move your 'good members' into a Super user group not subject to pre-moderation !!

 

[Jaxel]

Akismet is AWFUL for forums. Using Akismet for a year on my old forums, these are my findings...

False Positives... WAY TOO MANY
True Positives... ZERO, NADA, ZILCH

My script uses StopForumSpam, BotScout and FSpamList.

 

[ManagerJosh]

I'm personally a big fan of typepad's antispam countermeasures. It gives me the right balance

 

[craigiri]

I tried typepads for 10 minutes and it flagged a number of decent users.....so I am back to manual.
I go through the new signups each morning and look for hints....and also have stop forum spam (only hits about 20% of the time).....but it's easy to tell from some basics.
I also have an IP lookup built into my review screen so I can see if the location matches the required field location they entered.....
It takes me about 5 minutes a day - to go though the 10-20 new signups and do a pretty good job of deleting any suspects.
My users would help me if any got through.

 

[Paul B]

Implemented in 1.2.