Comments on: UMW Blogs loves Akismet

By: Reverend

Reverend — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:11:15 +0000

Alan,
The only problem with that is that Spam karma was a plugin that each blog installed, so there are thousands of tables. And I would have to seek them out. I actually need some kind of MySQL script that would go into the database and find each set of blog tables that had SK2 installed, and delete just those tables. There are probably over 1500 blogs that had sk2 installed

By: Alan Levine

Alan Levine — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:07:12 +0000

Just go into your database with something like phpMyAdmin; the sk2 tables have clear names to identify for deletion (I would suggest exporting them first paranoid just in case)

By: Reverend

Reverend — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:47:30 +0000

D’Arcy,

I usually find this out from the students and profs themselves, they contact me when something disappears, and I can gauge it that way. Plus, I imagine the incidence rate isn’t too much higher in Akismet as it was in SK2, but SK2 was pretty good for the most part. I’ll be watching closely as well, and sharing out what I find out.

By: Zach Whalen

Zach Whalen — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:44:05 +0000

Sounds great! For my part, I’ve been running Mollom on my Drupal sites for about a week and I’ve had no problems, really. If it’s self-reporting statistics are to be believed, Mollom has blocked 107 spam comments for me so far.

One thing I like about it is how well it interfaces with drupal. You can set Mollom to protect just about any form generated by any module, which is nice.

By: D'Arcy Norman

D'Arcy Norman — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:33:30 +0000

I am a bit nervous about the possibility of false positives – valid comments that get lost in moderation or yanked outright. I’m going to try to keep a close eye on things, but it’ll be hard to know if comments evaporate…