{"id":540,"date":"2007-08-28T09:37:58","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T17:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=540"},"modified":"2007-08-28T09:37:58","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T17:37:58","slug":"thank-you-spam-karma-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/28\/thank-you-spam-karma-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you Spam Karma 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a wordpress blog, and have the usual comment spam issues, I&#8217;d recommend checking out <a href=\"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wordpress\/spam-karma\/\">Spam Karma 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t get a lot of spam on my personal blog because I have comments automatically disable after a few days, however that&#8217;s not an option on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wishlisting.com\/\">wishlisting blog<\/a>, especially for technical posts that people sometimes stumble upon months later via Google.<\/p>\n<p>Spam Karma is free on commercial blogs (unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/akismet.com\/\">Akismet<\/a>) and uses a number of cool tricks to figure out whether a post is coming from a legitimate person, including:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>How long they spent on the page before submitting a comment<\/li>\n<li>Whether or not they&#8217;re using an actual browser (javascript test)<\/li>\n<li>How many links are in the comment and the ratio of links to text<\/li>\n<li>A few other things<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It then gives the post a &#8220;karma&#8221; score.  If the karma score is too low (looks like spam) it will give the person a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Captcha\">captcha<\/a> so they have one last shot at proving they&#8217;re a human.  It&#8217;s a pretty sweet idea.  Rather than hitting everyone with a captcha, they just use it on particularly suspicious comments which is far less intrusive.<\/p>\n<p>Posts with low karma and a failed captcha get marked as spam, and don&#8217;t end up in your moderation queue (although you can get a regular spam report).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a wordpress blog, and have the usual comment spam issues, I&#8217;d recommend checking out Spam Karma 2. I don&#8217;t get a lot of spam on my personal blog because I have comments automatically disable after a few days, however that&#8217;s not an option on the wishlisting blog, especially for technical posts that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-8I","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}