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Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of Ticket #16838, comment 30


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12/04/2013 06:37:51 PM (11 years ago)
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MikeSchinkel
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  • Ticket #16838, comment 30

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    2323P.S. BTW, I recently wrote [https://github.com/hardcorewp/spam-blacklist a Spam Blacklist plugin] because I was getting over ~500 Akismet spam-tagged comments a day on a very low traffic blog.  The plugin mined the 100,000+ spam I had received to create a **block** list by author, IP, email and URL, and if blocked it throws up a screen offering to whitelist the person if they contact me. 
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    25 **It was a blunt force approach to solve ''my'' problem** and has many issues so it's not a general solution but the core concept was to **block** ''(vs. just spam-tag)'' what is easily identifiable as spam ''**on my unique blog**'' given the history of spam on my blog and the topics I write about, and then giving letting the commenter know their comment was blocked so they can contact me to allow them to be whitelisted.
     25**It was a blunt force approach to solve ''my'' problem** and has many issues so it's not a general solution but the core concept was to **block** ''(vs. just spam-tag)'' what is easily identifiable as spam ''**on my unique blog**'' given the history of spam on my blog and the topics I write about, and then letting the commenter know their comment was blocked so they can contact me to allow them to be whitelisted.
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    2727So I think having a peer-to-peer spam plugin architected and built for core that takes into consideration each site's content could go a long way to finally resolving the ongoing spam problem in addition to satisfying the concerns raised by this ticket.  FWIW.