Stop, Don’t hit that Delete Spam Button

These days Akismet’s accuracy have drastically reduced and its not as effective as it was couple of months ago. Akismet was designed to learn from its previous mistakes and keep improving itself, but unfortunately its taking too long to learn.

Worst of all, Akismet doesn’t even notify the commentor that his comment has been marked as spam, so its pretty hard to make out if your comment is marked as spam or kept under moderation. I and some of my friends are facing the same problem, So check your spambox before hitting that delete button.

What can you do to prevent spam?

• Use alternative Spam Filters like Spam Karma (SK2)
• Use Bad Behavior (Thou it doesn’t stop spam, it reduces the rate of spam)
• Use Captcha or Anti Spam Image

Why SK2 is better than Akismet?

SK2 is considered better than Akismet mainly because SK2 doesn’t have a universal blacklist and once if a comment is accidentally marked as spam, demarking it will put the commentor’s IP address in a whitelist, so that it won’t be caught as spam again.

Although Akismet has selflessly served in blocking 19786 spams on TechBuzz, I don’t think its good enough any more, so I’m switching over to Spam Karma 2. I’ve been also considering using Captcha to prevent spam, but TechZ suggested me that, it may hurt my commentators, so I have dropped that idea temporarily.