Hey shefinds,

While Akismet is fantastic in helping combat spam, it isn’t an “end-all” solution to spam.  Are you using any of the other spam combat tools EE offers (like the blacklist and the Comment Spam Prevention Extension?  Jambor-ee also has a great article on Spam proofing your EE installation that offers a lot of info on the subject.

Personally, I have a healthy blacklist built on top of the one EllisLab offers up, coupled with the Akismet module/extension and the Comment Spam extension.  Very little (if any) spam gets through.

Just thought I’d stop by and give praise. I’ve been using this extension for awhile, and it works fabulously. I was just responding to another thread about comment spam this morning, and realized, that I was able to go longer than a month without even given a thought to how many spammers had breached the gates of my website. What a wonderful feeling of relief. Thanks so much for creating this Extension/Module so Akismet could work with EE.

I do have one suggestion though, since the Akismet site, links directly to this thread, it would be great if the most current download file was available in the first post like this thread.  You can see the updates and know you are downloading the most current file, without browsing through pages and pages of replies.

Good point, allgood2. I’ve added a notice to the first post. And thank you for the kind words.

Just installed this on version 1.6.1 and it’s working brilliantly.

One question though. After installing the Akismet Extension, when I log into my control panel and I see the “site statistics” on the control panel homepage I see at the bottom it says “comments awaiting moderation.” If I click this link it takes me to the comments that Akismet thinks is spam. On this page I have all the comments automatically marked as “closed.” I have the choice to either delete them or open them. If am to delete them from this page, is that also helping Akismet “learn” in the process? Or…to help Akismet “learn” do I actually have to click on “Modules >> Akismet” and then select all and “Mark as Spam and Delete?”

One location it simply has the option to delete and the other location has the option to mark as spam plus delete…didn’t know if those two were the same?

deronsizemore - 18 December 2007 08:03 AM

One location it simply has the option to delete and the other location has the option to mark as spam plus delete…didn’t know if those two were the same?

They’re not. The former is the EE-native way of moderating comments, the latter is the Akismet way. If you delete comments via Modules > Akismet, then it will learn. Otherwise it will not.

Ok thanks. That’s what I was thinking. I just made a new tab for Akismet for easy access.

Thanks

Is anyone else having problems with the Akismet module?  For the past week or so, all of our comments have gone into moderation, making me think Akismet is unreachable.  Ideas?  Thoughts?

Thanks,

Doug

Hello everybody (:

I am thinking about installing this extension, but I want to make sure that version 1.1 - 2006.12.08 is the latest and that it is compatible with ExpressionEngine v 1.6.1.

From what I have read it seems pretty stable but the date of that latest version posted at this page gives me some anxiety.

I am guessing that I need to have Wordpress installed in order to get the API key?

cheers (:

hereward - 28 April 2008 06:00 PM

Hello everybody (:

I am thinking about installing this extension, but I want to make sure that version 1.1 - 2006.12.08 is the latest and that it is compatible with ExpressionEngine v 1.6.1.

From what I have read it seems pretty stable but the date of that latest version posted at this page gives me some anxiety.

I am guessing that I need to have Wordpress installed in order to get the API key?

cheers (:

Hello hereward,

I think it’s safe to install, working quite good for 1 year now. Although it’s getting really slow -and affects the resources of my server- when it has to deal with many spam messages [deletion, i’m getting low response when leave the plugin to “catch” more than 200 comments]

You should follow the post of CrimsonDawn [link] for generic spam fight.

PS: You just need to register for a blog @ wordpress dot com to get an API key, nothing more. No installs

hereward - 28 April 2008 06:00 PM

From what I have read it seems pretty stable but the date of that latest version posted at this page gives me some anxiety.

Just because there hasn’t been an update since December 2006, doesn’t mean this add-on is out of date. What it does is very straight-forward, so there was no need for extra options or updates. And since EE’s API nor Akismet’s API changed, no alterations or new versions were needed for this add-on to work properly.

In short: safe to install.

Thanks, I will ive it a go.

I have a question about commerical licensing which i have also sent to akismet but have not received a reply.

I am administering a commerical site and we are looking for a final solution for spam. The akismet module works great but I am not sure about the terms and conditions of using the module.

Since the module requires a wordpress API key this gives us reason to think that there may be licensing issues using it on a commerical portal.

Any feedback you can give is appreciated.

(: Hereward

Should this be working with 1.6.3? I have installed as per instructions. I get no errors, but I also cannot enable the extension in

Admin > Utilities > Extensions Manager

After clicking [Enable extensions?] green button and confirming status of Akismet Check (1.1) still stays disabled. No errors, no nothing. It just wont enable.