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Anyone Seen Spam Karma for Wordpress?

Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 8:52 pm
by TKS
http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/

I just ran across this and found it unique. Was wondering some of the developers thoughts on perhaps a port of this...I know s9y has the wordpress askimet plugin (via the s9y blog announcement) integrated...but in the quest to sqaush spam...I thought this one was a nifty one as well.

It has an API page here: http://www.wp-plugins.net/wiki/index.php?title=SK2_API

Dunno since I don't code at all...but thoughts on this?

Re: Anyone Seen Spam Karma for Wordpress?

Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 9:11 pm
by garvinhicking
Hi!

Well, basically our core spamblock plugin already does most of these things; I couldn't see something that spamblock couldn't do -- is there anything specific you are missing, then the plugin could be enhanced?

Other plugins like the SURBL spamblock already are kind of a sub-karma plugin like the karma-plugins, so actually I'm not sure I get what you want :)

Best regards,
Garvin

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:50 am
by TKS
I guess I was under the impression it had some sort of tracking system. On some of the blogs I visited it had the number of blocked spam message attempts that it displayed in the footer...

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:34 pm
by garvinhicking
Hi!

The spamblock plugin also logs caught spam in the database, if configured. It would be easy to include an output on how many spam was caught.

I personnally think this information is exceptionally useless to your visitors, though. Why would I want to know how many spam you get, as a visitor? It would be interesting to see how many visitors you have... :)

Best regards,
Garvin

Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 4:51 pm
by TKS
It'd be similar to having a "Protected by XX Security Systems" sticker or sign on your window or in your yard at your home. It might deter others from trying to spam you?

I don't know...but thanks for answering Garvin :)

Just didn't know what it had that we didn't (which you've answered as "nothing" which makes me quite happy)