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I notice that my site got many comments recently…Oops…should I say SPAMS! Yeah, many are spams…with a few are from genuine users that left appreciation comments on my blog.
Got tired of deleting spams, and knowing that they will only get worse once they found you…as all are posted by bots (inhuman). I searched at wordpress site, and I remember last time there was a nice spam combat plugin…found it: Akismet!
Not sure how good is it, but instead of using Captcha, I think I want to try Akismet first, since it is very popular. Captcha can be good…only if those bots are not very smart (Captcha at vBulletin forum software site is very powerful and complicated, yet my forum (PhotoMalaysia) still got many new spam bot registration daily. So I have to implement extra question for verification to avoid bot registration. Those spam bot’s OCR is just way too good!).
Akismet, hopefully not going to disappoint me… 😛
I had the same problem with my school forum. In the end, I uninstalled the forum. Tired of deleting the spams… and the “fighting” in the forum.
Hi Weilian,
It is not easy to run and maintain a forum, but if you can continue with it…you might be able to enjoy the fruitful results later.
One can’t run a forum, a big forum, all by himself. You need a team, that is where you assigned good members as moderators and take care of the forum together with you.
My site, PhotoMalaysia.com, we have more than 10 staffs. Our staffs are hardworking in deleting spams, and now I have implemented tighter security, spams rarely get through so it helps relief the burden a little.
When your forum grows big, you can then enjoy getting some ads revenue from it. Lowyat.net can easily earn RM20k per month from ads! Forum is different from blog, where blog is a continuing job…if you stop blogging, people will stop visiting, but forum with continue to grow if your members are active.
Hi Weilian,
I just visited your site, very nicely done and you have many beautiful photos there.
Also, thanks for the link to my online store. 🙂
Thanks for visiting my site, Kho King. Really nice to get to know you.