Comments on: WordPress Plugin – The Geek’s Spam Filter

By: Bruce Eggum

Bruce Eggum — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:30:31 +0000

Do you have a spam prog for Drupal too?
Thanks for a very valuable site.

Bruce

By: JeremyDuffy

JeremyDuffy — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 22:52:37 +0000

Tried it and it looks pretty good. Three suggestions (two of which I already implemented by changing your code slightly):

1) Have it print out the actual word that made it crash out when it finds a filtered word. The bigger the badlist, the more likely that some string of characters in their comment matches.

2) Put a break in the badlist foreach loop. After it finds a word, there’s no need to keep looking.

3) (the one I DIDN’T do) Obviously this would require a fair bit of work to do, but having some kind of simple config panel that can be accessed through wordpress (like akismet has) where I can change the number of links to check by and add/subtract from the bad word list would be great.

By: jeremyduffy

jeremyduffy — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:08:53 +0000

I have been looking for something EXACTLY like this for MONTHS. I’ve left a message in the Wordpress forums and I contacted Akismet several times. It’s SO obvious! I never want to see obvious spam!

How do I know it’s obvious spam? Why, by keyword and number of links of course. DUH!

Thank you thank you! I can’t wait to try it out.

By: The Geek

The Geek — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 03:45:07 +0000

I basically just add to the list as spam changes over time… lately I’ve been getting some weird spam about desk lamps. Very odd.

By: Ryan Wagner

Ryan Wagner — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 03:36:56 +0000

I just wanted to see what words you were blocking so I downloaded the file. I don’t know why, but I couldn’t help but lauch when I read a lot of them, but most of them I have blacklisted, too.

By: The Geek

The Geek — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:48:46 +0000

Yeah, there shouldn’t be any spam on this site. I also moderate comments as well just to make sure.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:30:19 +0000

I don’t see many spam on this site. I guess this thing is working!

By: Mr Linux

Mr Linux — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 08:48:45 +0000

So, can we expect the “beat the living daylights” feature somewhere in release 2.0?