Mokkujin wrote:Could you give me a few tips like me something can reduce that ?
You can't actually reduce spam, just try to handle it in a way that it produces as little hassle for you as possible while still making it as easy as possible for honest people to still comment.
Here's what I do (listed in the order the plugins are installed in):
1. Spamblock Bee: uses a pretty simple technique that still works surprisingly well – a visually hidden form field that should not be filled out that spam bots still see and try to fill out. That's called a Honey Pot, and it does all the heavy lifting in my block in terms of comment spam (simply does not accept comments that fill out the hidden field). I do not use the hidden captcha that the plugin also offers (having to solve a simple math equation, but also hidden) since that used to cause issues in Firefox.
2. Spamblock (Standard): I don't use many options, but those are still pretty useful. It would take up too much space here to list them all, but let's say that required fields make it pretty easy to reject some bot spam – just don't overdo it to not annoy real commentators. (I use name, email, comment.) Forced moderation after 14 days these days mostly seems to catch my own trackbacks, but every now and then, it catches a spam comment as well.
3. Spamblock Bayes: this is a learning, phrase-based filter. It basically dissects the comments that you can qualify as ham or spam and learns from this process. That is very convenient since it works well on its own after a while, but I have come to find that it works best as the “last line of defense” focussing on the (very few) comments that pass the other two. My Bayes settings are pretty standard.
I do not use recaptcha or
any kind of
visual captcha since those are mostly inaccessible and even a hassle for users without any disabilities.
Try searching the forums for this, there are more and other posts on how people deal with spam. Also, since I know you're German, there's an
episode of the (German) s9y InfoCamp podcast on this topic.
YL