Help Me Stop Comment Spam! Need YOUR Advice…
I need your help.
I love comments. I love to get them. I love to leave them. We recently installed CommentLuv, so not only do you get a mention if you are a frequent commentor on the site, but we use CommentLuv to parse your feed and get your latest post.
But I have a problem. I need to manually verify most comments, because of the SPAM. I’ve tried the reCaptcha plugin for WordPress, but it craps out the blog. Something doesn’t work well and as soon as it’s installed and you try to get to the page to leave a comment - IE complains it can’t load the site and dies. Really sucks.
Ever since we’ve started advertising that we’re a Google PR4 site, and provide the TopCommentators plugin and now CommentLuv, and we’re DO FOLLOW to boot - we get a lot of spam. I hate comment spam because those that leave it obviously think I’m too stooopid to notice and will let them go through.
Yes, I do use Akismet and it works great! But the problem is that it flags many legitimate comments as spam an sometimes lets the odd spam comment through.
So I’m looking to YOU for advice. What captcha system are you using? Can you recommend one that is light weight and easy to install and use?
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keep using this spam comment protection. as long as bot can not do math, keep using it 
That would be the freedom day of spammer and create history if there is a tool that can read captcha perfectly.
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This is the one I used on my last blog (must instlall it on this one) http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-spamfree/
yea..and all my posts get flagged as spam at the moment.
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@Brokencode - thanks! I think it’s actually working! You are right, until the spambots become hyper-intelligent, we should be safe.
@Tom - thanks for the tip! I will check it out.
I actually read an article somewhere that breaking some of the “simple” captchas is quite easy and that the spambots are able to crack ‘em without much difficulty. Apparently is because most of the simpler systems use black text on white or some other color so the scripts filter out colors based on some algorithm since in most cases the captcha text is darker than the background its on.
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