How Effective is Math Comment Spam Protection?

Posted in Security | By AhTim @ December 22nd, 2009

I have been using Math Comment Spam protection for quite some time. It is a simple WordPress plugin, yet awesome spam protection results.

The Math Comment Spam plugin running well until my readers told me they can’t give comment. I checked on the plugin no problem found, at last give up the plugin because cannot find the root cause.

Hundred of Spam Daily

I thought Akismet plugin should be able block those spam. Yes, it helps to identify spam comment and trackback. But it is annoying to go through huge amount of spam comments to find out which not spam.

Spam comments come in non-stop everyday, highest one get 141 spam comments in a day!

After upgrade WordPress, the plugin work well again. You can see from the chart, it come down to nearly zero since then. So you can see how efficient is the Math Comment Spam protection. Almost 99% spam free!

My Two Cents

But the weakness is no trackback protection, and the plugin author has no upgrade anymore since 2 years ago. Anyway, Akismet keep an eye on this part.

Maybe I should go for better Spam Protection plugin? Do you have any suggestion for me?

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