With literally THOUSANDS of spam messages sent to this site alone each week, manual moderation would be impossible. Spam Karma has already caught close to 50,000 spam messages on this site since January 2006. I do look at its results a few times a week and so far, it has only flagged one legitimate message as spam. I’ve since adjusted settings and haven’t had that problem again.

Turning on the Captcha feature of Spam Karma is what helps ensure that only REAL messages come through. It does not appear unless the message MIGHT be spam and it seems to weed out the robots.

I also just installed Bad Behavior, which appears to stop robots before they start using system resources. This should prevent database and installation errors that might appear when the server is too busy handling spam requests to handle legitimate ones. It’ll cut down Spam Karma’s workload, too.

I don’t know what you mean by backlinks. Perhaps you can enlighten me?

And the trackback problem I had on this site (the original subject of this post) was fixed when I moved the site to GoDaddy.com’s server.

I believe this IS how I’m handling spams that have high karma ratings. Your software makes it extremely easy to do by sending that message with the clickable link. And I do periodically check the caught spam to make sure none of it is non-spam; if it is, I use your interface to bring it back from the spam pile. I’ve also used your interface to “whitelist” an e-mail address that was previously blacklisted. Frankly, I’d be lost without the software — too much comment spam out there. I will definitely be writing about it (and recommending it) in Chapter 4 of our book.

Thanks again for the great software.

As I said, doing so will help fine-tune SK2′s settings automatically and dramatically improve your catching rate.

Cheers.

I can receive trackbacks on my site. I just can’t send them.

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