Spam Karma
I read about a clever anti-spam plugin on the WordPress Development Blog. Spam Karma assesses comments on multiple dimensions to determine their ‘spaminess’. It also tries to prevent any false positives at the same time as minimising the effort required to moderate comments manually.
I’ve installed the plugin now, as I’ve periodically had problems with comment spam (though nothing like the level of spamming I got when I was using MovableType). It should be exactly like commenting before. However, if your comment gets flagged up as being ‘borderline spammy’ (perhaps because it has more than three URLs in it), you may be asked to enter a code into a text box that you’ll be presented with as an image. This is to check that you are a real human and not an evil spambot. As usual, let me know if you hit any problems.
Arrived
Well my DNS has propagated now, and it seems as if my move between hosts has been relatively uneventful. I think that I’ve put everything back more or less where it belongs, but if you spot anything that’s broken, missing, or not where you expect it to be do let me know.
My move wasn’t prompted by dissatisfaction with my previous host, Blogomania. They have been great hosts: reliable, great value andâapart from a small blip a few months ago which is now resolvedâgiving great support. I’ve recommended them to people in the past, and would do so againâthey are a very safe bet. The problem was that I want to do some more Ruby and Rails development1, and to produce live web applications rather than ones that just run on my local machine. Most good hosting companies (including Blogomania) provide great PHP support, but very few support Ruby.
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