Antispam measures for blogs

This task is part of the FellowshipHacks/Projects/Blog project.

Goal

Set up default measures to avoid spam in comments and trackbacks.

People

People working on this task.

• cri

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Status

Last updated on: 090118

We have a list of solutions to try.

Subtasks

This is a list of subtasks to do for the completion of the task.

• Test if the spamkarma2 WP plugin is supported by WPMU, and enable it by default

• Otherwise, find and test other solutions

Possible antispam solutions

spamkarma2 plugin

Test if spamkarma2 (which works great on WP) is supported by WPMU

• http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/

• http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=452

• http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/tags.php?tag=karma

• http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/tags.php?tag=spam

Other solutions

Provisional list:

• typepadantispam
• MJ Ray: if you're willing to let Site Admins moderate all comments, I can hurry up and publish our sitewide-comments-admin plugin
• Quick (but suboptimal) solution: restrict comments to registered users (as in the current ez setup)