Comments on: Simple Spam Filter for WordPress

By: Donald

Donald — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:48:50 +0000

Hi~ I just report some bugs in Simple Spam Filter on Google Code…

By: A Detailed Discussion on The Top 9 Anti-Spam Plugins of Wordpress

A Detailed Discussion on The Top 9 Anti-Spam Plugins of Wordpress — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 11:13:25 +0000

[...] Simple Spam Filter looks for a particular pattern to distinguish a spam from a real commenter, like most of the other Spam filters. The best part for this plugin is, it can work along with Akismet and will display a captcha if Akismet flags a comment as spam. So the problem with Akismet (that it flags legitimate comments as spams sometimes) can be countered with it. [...]

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Trackback, Pingback and Refback — The What and How — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:58:53 +0000

[...] Simple Spam Filter. This plugin examines trackback data. If it contains 5 or more links, bbcode style links, or spam words, and if the comment is very similar to previous comments, it will filter out the tracback. [...]

By: estetik

estetik — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:26:59 +0000

I think this is a useful plugin.

By: Simple Spam Filter Plugin - WP Plugin Archive

Simple Spam Filter Plugin - WP Plugin Archive — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:49:39 +0000

[...] Simple Spam Filter Plugin von Joe Tan für dem WordPress Blog einen einfachen Spamfilter hinzu. Optional kann ein Captcha [...]

By: How Many Blog Spam Bastards Have I Actually Blocked? | Strangely Perfect

How Many Blog Spam Bastards Have I Actually Blocked? | Strangely Perfect — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:51:13 +0000

[...] TanTanNoodles = 7946 [...]

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overzealous antispam and campus blogging | D'Arcy Norman dot net — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:28:17 +0000

[...] just had to uninstall the TanTanNoodles Simple Spam Filter from UCalgaryBlogs.ca - it’s a simple plugin that uses a dictionary lookup to try to detect [...]

By: Anton

Anton — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:59:53 +0000

I think the simplest way to block spam is to block messages which do not containt russian letters. Nobody will comment in English, because my blog is in Russian

Also I have a PHP-BB forum, and
1) Most of the spam is written in English
2) Only one message (of 150000 messages) in English was not spam.

The same situation in my GMail box.

So, the spam solution is to block English language in the Web.

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Avec quoi carbure Veille Perso? — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:52:44 +0000

[...] TanTanNoodles Simple Spam Filter: un autre plugin antispam pour compléter Akismet, afin de réduire encore plus les chances qu’un spam arrive dans les commentaires [...]

By: webmaestro

webmaestro — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:27:24 +0000

It looks like we’ve got a new version of the Simple Spam Filter for WordPress:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tantan-spa m/

Unfortunately, I don’t see many of the changes slated for 0.6.1 in there:

http://code.google.com/p/tantan-toolkit/source/bro wse/trunk/plugins/tantan-spam-filter/plugin.php

The only changes are the version number from 0.6 to 0.6.2, and changing line 437 from this:

if (is_object($new) && is_array($new->response)) {

to this:

if (is_object($new)) {

There must be another code repository somewhere…