Posted by admin in My comment spam on all of my blogs is handled by Akismet. If you’re a WordPress blogger, this is without a doubt, THE musthave plugin. You won’t have to deal with your inbox flooded with spam comments to moderate – Akismet is a huge timesaver. It will hold any suspected spam comments in a queue for you to review or delete, much like comment moderation on Wordpress, but you won’t get emails for each suspected spam comment. Each comment is run through a spam test. You don’t need to ever upgrade Akismet, because it’s constantly learning from how others use it. It literally becomes MORE effective as time goes on.
Here’s my idea to make Akismet even better – a lot of spam comments I receive are easily 500 characters in length. It makes it difficult to review the spam once you get several long comments in there. I’d love to see Akismet work in a module to limit the # of characters that can be used in a comment. Heck, I’d even use a plugin like this if it weren’t tied into Akismet. I can’t believe no one creating WordPress plugins has some up with this idea! Limiting the character count would be just one more way to combat spam, and it would certainly make it easier to look for legit comments.
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Perhaps you could just apply the Textarea Maxlength DHTML script?
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[...] I need to go completely off topic for a minute and tell you about the out of control spam on this blog. I use a plugin for Wordpress called Akismet that does a great job of controlling spam on all of my blogs. It sends all suspected spam to a spam queue so that I can review it. Lately, I’ve been getting SO much spam (literally, 100’s an hour) that there’s no way I can review the spam queue. I’m worried legit comments are going to be stuck in there and never be seen again. Stupid spammers. [...]
What I want to do on my blog, is every few hours take the oldest post and move it to the
front of the queue, all automatically. Anyone know if there is a plugin that can do this or
a simple way to set up another plugin to do this (use my own feed perhaps)?
Thanks.
Well Askimet is already filtering for the long comments. They’re in the spam queue and not on your blog, so it is doing its job. Askimet doesn’t delete or disallow comments. KWIM?
However, I think I found something that could be useful. It allows you to limit the # of characters people can put in a comment box.
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/66084