The field of spam prevention evolves fairly rapidly, as do people’s preferences for how to combat it, so the purpose of this informal poll is to get a finger on the pulse of what you’re using presently. If you employ tools or services not listed here, please reply with them, and where appropriate, I’ll edit the poll to include them.
I’m currently testing a new and improved version of the Akismet combo, which will include the option to use the TypePad AntiSpam service. It will be able to catch spam on gallery comments, forum posts and wiki articles, too.
I use an adapted version of what Jonathan Snook released in his CakePHP blog plug-in. I read his anti-spam rules, copied what I liked, and added what I felt was missing. But his plug-in has some great rules.
I feel its important to do spam screening behind the scenes, so the legitimate users aren’t treated like criminals and made to read increasingly scrambled capthca pieces of junk.
The best solution I’ve seen, is a developer who encrypted the entire comment form. So that spam scripts wouldn’t even notice that there was a form in the pate. Its slow, and bulky, but keeps bots out.
We’ve not yet perfected our method of sending a large electrical shock back through the keyboard of human spammers each time they hit the submit button. We’re working on it though.
Currently only using the native features. I’ll grant you, though, that we haven’t seen much spam at all, and that’s why. Were we getting bombarded… that might be another story.
Interestingly enough, the most spam we’ve been getting has been real human spam—people genuinely watching/responding to our videos, and then posting tons links in their comment to their lame video website. That makes them impossible to outsmart via CAPTCHA or Akismet and such, but easy to get rid of by slapping an IP ban on them.
I feel its important to do spam screening behind the scenes, so the legitimate users aren’t treated like criminals and made to read increasingly scrambled capthca pieces of junk.
I completely agree with Sean. I typically use Askimet but I’m open to any server-side screening options. I hate captcha with a passion. As a user it is difficult to use and most of the time I don’t bother registering for something if it uses captcha.
I stick with the accessible captcha and Akismet and it seems to catch about 99% of my spam. Thought about trying Defensio add-on a while back but figured, don’t fix what isn’t broken.
We’ve not yet perfected our method of sending a large electrical shock back through the keyboard of human spammers each time they hit the submit button. We’re working on it though.
One thing that I want to mention here is that we don’t really rely on the form system or CMS to control spam, we rely on the email provider to do that. In our case we use Google Apps and rely on Gmail to filter out spam. We use just FormSpring for the contact forms and I dont think they filter anything.
I use the blacklist & whitelist module along with a 2 hidden forms in the comments. With a little Javascript if either or both of the forms are not blank it will pass the link on like it is accepted but in reality it will be dropped
