Akismet Anti SPAM AddOn/Hack

[se.nsuo.us]

Tada!!! finally it is here a simpler way to integrate the all magical Akismet SPAM blocker! All hail the King!!

Ummm... whatever or whoever, lets cut the drama and get down to the job.

NOTE This is not a true addon and needs core files to tbe changed a bit - do it only if you know what you are doing. Also since I rarely get comment SPAM this addon has not be tested very extensively in real-life situation. Lastly this is for Pixelpost 1.5RC1 (and hopefully above)

Unzip the files in a convinient location on your local computer.

Upload the files from the zip file to corresponding directories on your webserver. That is index.php goes in the pixelpost root directory, files in admin folder go in the corresponding pixelpost admin folder on your webserver, addons to addons and...

Thats it you are done!!

Now hop over to http://akismet.com and read about how to get an API key - once you have that key login to your Pixelpost Admin Addon section, you should now see the "Pixelpost Akismet comment filter" Paste your key in the textbox and click update button - the page will reload and you should see a "API key validated succesfully." message when you scroll down to the Akismet Addon section.

Now wait for your first SPAM - anything which Akismet identifies as SPAM will be automatically flag it as Akismet SPAM and show in Red background. Also note if you have email notification turned on and the comment is identified as SPAM the notification will *NOT* be sent.

Comments marked as Akismet SPAM will be deleted automatically after 7 days

Also in the Comment section you should now be able to see few more buttons in the menu-bar "Report Spam to Akismet" and "Report HAM to Akismet" use it to do the needful after selecting a comment. Remember comments in Akismet Queue are highlighted Red and already reported to Akismet - need not report them again. In other words Report as Spam the Spam comments which Akismet missed, also Report as HAM the comments which Akismet marked as Spam but were not Spams.

Lastly I have added two convinence buttons "Show Akismet Spam" and "Show Published Comments" which do what they say :)

Download here (http://se.nsuo.us/contrib/Akismet1.1.zip)



======Information below is depricated but helpful if you want to do manual install======

NOTE This is not a true addon and needs core files to tbe changed a bit - do it only if you know what you are doing. Also since I rarely get comment SPAM this addon has not be tested very extensively in real-life situation. Lastly this is for Pixelpost 1.5b (and hopefully above)

Now that the leagalese out of the way here is how to add Kick Ass Akismet SPAM protection for your Pixel Post Blog

Add following Lines to index.php

//include the Akismet comment filter script.
include('addons/admin_akismet_comment.php');

After

// send it to moderation if contains banned words but not black listed!
if(is_comment_in_moderation_list($message,$ip,$nam e)){
$cmnt_publish_permission = 'no';
$cmnt_moderate_permission ='yes';
}
This is around line 990

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In file admin/comment.php
Add

";
eval_addon_admin_workspace_menu('admin_akismet_lin ks');
echo "

Just Before

<hr/>
<ul>";
if ($_GET['show']=='masked')
$moderate_where = " and publish='no' ";

This is around line 223, please note the "; as the first line

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Lastly upload the file admin_akismet_comment.php in your addons folder. Thats all that is needed for modifications

Now hop over to http://akismet.com and read about how to get an API key - once you have that key, login to your Pixelpost Admin Addon section, you should now see the "Pixelpost Akismet comment filter" Paste your key in the textbox and click update button - the page will reload and you should see a "API key validated succesfully." message when you scroll down to the Akismet Addon section.

Now wait for your first SPAM - anything which Akismet identifies as SPAM will be automatically put in moderation queue

Also in the Comment section you should now be able to see 2 more buttons in the menu-bar "Report Spam to Akismet" and "Report HAM to Akismet" use it to do the needful after selecting a comment. Remember comments in Moderation Queue are highlighted and most probably already reported to Akismet - need not report them again. In other words Report as Spam the Spam comments which Akismet missed, also Report as HAM the comments which Akismet marked as Spam but were not Spams.

Download here (http://se.nsuo.us/contrib/AkismetAddon.zip)

[raminia]

I'm really glad to having it. thanx

[se.nsuo.us]

You are most welcome - let me know if it really works ;)

[Paul Wood]

It is catching my normal spam (woohoo! 3 so far in the last hour or so), however I have this line on my comment page before it redirects back to the image. I don't think this was here before.

Array ( [0] => HTTP/1.0 200 OK X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.2 Content-Type:
text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 5 Server: LiteSpeed Date: Mon, 10
Apr 2006 19:47:40 GMT Connection: close [1] => false )

Is there an error here? Seems to work ok.

[sentinel]

i think it's in line 115

print_r($response);


just for debugging purposes, no error (imho)

[raminia]

well you should get the api key from wordpress.org to make it work for you.

[Paul Wood]

well you should get the api key from wordpress.org to make it work for you.

Ummm... I did. It caught about a dozen spam comments today. Only missed one, and I reported it to Askimet.

[se.nsuo.us]

i think it's in line 115

print_r($response);


just for debugging purposes, no error (imho)

Very Correct - thanks for catching it - Updated the Zip (download link in the first post)

[se.nsuo.us]

It caught about a dozen spam comments today. Only missed one, and I reported it to Askimet.
Hooray!!! It works....

Thanks for testing

[raminia]

the Akismet addon should act like this to have the best effect:

It should automatically send every received comment/trackback to Akismet servers and get the SPAM/NOT-SPAM flags. Then set a flag for that comment accordingly. Thus we need a additional field in the comment table for flagging something as spam. The Addon should have the option to delete the SPAM flagged commments in a predifined period of time. Meanwhile users could report the comments that are mistakenly flagged SPAM by akismet (HAM). Putting all Spam comments to moderation list is not the best way to use Akismet. With the above procedure human intervention to deleting/moderating the spmas will be limited.

[se.nsuo.us]

Well, your point of extra field in comments table is valid BUT do note that the current Akismet Addon was designed so that it could be best accomodated in the current PP code base with minimal changes.

To begin with I would like to see workspaces on the user side, ability to switch off comments for individual photos or altogather, world peace and Pixelpost 1.5RC1

However since none of these things are available, putting spam in moderation queue is currently the best option. I am noticing that the false positive from Akismet are very very few so might add an option of deleting the comments marked spam without storing them... risky but might be worth it

[se.nsuo.us]

I just had a look at my addon and the comment table structure if instead of setting the 'publish' field to 'no' in case of spam it can be set to 'spm' - these comments will still show up as moderated in admin and *not* show on the site

The addon can auto delete the comments flagged with 'spm' after 15 days....

[raminia]

cool

[Paul Wood]

Very Correct - thanks for catching it - Updated the Zip (download link in the first post)

Actually, I think I'll leave it in for now. It lets me see errors like this:

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to
e8290b395017.rest.akismet.com:80 (Connection refused) in
/home/pnjwood/fotoblog/addons/admin_akismet_comment.php on line 107

[se.nsuo.us]

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to
e8290b395017.rest.akismet.com:80 (Connection refused) in
/home/pnjwood/fotoblog/addons/admin_akismet_comment.php on line 107


Looks like there are times when Akismit Server is too busy

Oh! wait do you get the above whenever you post a comment or only occasionally?

[GeoS]

It can be problem of disabled sockets.

[Paul Wood]

Looks like there are times when Akismit Server is too busy

Oh! wait do you get the above whenever you post a comment or only occasionally?

Occasionally. There was a period of about an hour yesterday while it didn't work. I tried again later and it did.

I suspected the Aksimit server was busy or rebooting, so I didn't delete the spam message until after I had a successful submission. That's why I prefer to keep the results line.

[se.nsuo.us]

I guess I will have to figure out something for the times when Akismet server is busy...

[komma5]

i just have tried the akismet-plugin, it seems to be working fine!
thank you for this solution!!

[Michael Sarver]

I just checked it out for myself. This is a nice SPAM fighting "addon". Thanks!

[Puffin]

Hi,

I installed the plug-in and everything seems to be fine. Plug is recognized, Api Code is correct, I have the 2 new buttons in the comment section but unfortunately all spam (atm 300 per day) is getting through....and is not recognized...:(

Any ideas?

Thx in advance!

http://www.look-s.de

[raminia]

Hi,

I installed the plug-in and everything seems to be fine. Plug is recognized, Api Code is correct, I have the 2 new buttons in the comment section but unfortunately all spam (atm 300 per day) is getting through....and is not recognized...:(

Any ideas?

Thx in advance!

http://www.look-s.de
you should report them as spam to AKismet and you won't receive them anymore.

[Puffin]

OK I did this with the last 100...and will do so with next 1000....:)

[Dan]

Great little addon! Got a issue though...

If I've got the "COMMENT MODERATION" option AND the "Pixelpost Akismet comment filter" both set to ON, the moderation doesn't seem to work.

I get the message that the comment has been received and is waiting for approval, but the comment instantly appears on returning to the image.

When I turn off the Akismet addon, the moderation works fine...

Any thoughts?

Dan

[se.nsuo.us]

The addon is meant to work with Moderation Off at the moment else it will need a bit more hacking of index.php

[komma5]

...but unfortunately all spam (atm 300 per day) is getting through....and is not recognized...:(

http://www.look-s.de

this is really strange due to the fact that the plugin works gracefully in my installation with getting exactly the same spam from the same sender !?

not a single false-positive mark from the addon (> 300 spam-comments since yesterday) and up to now there was no need for me to hit the report-spam-button !

ok, i'm glad it's working fine with me but why the heck it isn't working at jens' installation !?

pretty weird...

[se.nsuo.us]

Well without actually looking into the install it is very difficult - there have been instances where people have not verified their API keys / do not have api keys the servers do not allow sockets function etc etc...

Am glad it is working for you

[Paul Wood]

you should report them as spam to AKismet and you won't receive them anymore.

Actually, this isn't true. You'll just have them sent to the moderation queue.

There's a new kiddie script out there. I'm getting spam comments on each and every image every day now. It's becoming quite the pain to delete them all.

I would welcome an addition automatically delete comments in the moderation queue after a specified time. I've never had a valid comment get sent to the moderation queue.

[se.nsuo.us]

I would welcome an addition automatically delete comments in the moderation queue after a specified time. I've never had a valid comment get sent to the moderation queue.
Hopefully I will have some time next week - meanwhile anyone wanting to take a shot at it please do - this is a high demand item :)

[posefius]

I also implemented Akismet in Pixelpost 1.5rc1, it works great! I receive about 300 SPAM comments every day. All are recognized by Akismet, but it is still a hard job to delete them from the moderation queue manualy, because also not moderated real comments are between them. Maybe a SPAM queue can be introduced or an option to select all moderated comments or a special SPAM mark to recognize them. It would be fine to delete them all at once with one push on the button.

[Orangetones]

I agree with all this talk. Akisment is great! Catches all the spam I get. Actually, funny note, I used to get about 15-20 a day, then I upgradeed to 1.5rc1 and now get around 500 or so a day. Akismet is catching all of them and I haven't had any false positives.

I am looking forward to the abovementioned change to allow identified spam to be deleted without going into the moderation queue, or at least having an easier way to batch delete those that are marked with as spam.

Thanks for the upgrade to 1.5rc1! It is great. Now we just have to get the time it takes to eleiminate spam down to nothing!

Great job everyone on the Dev team!

Thanks

[blinking8s]

i think its more of a timing issue, cause even users I know on 1.4 are getting the spam...and I didnt update till today, so the spam came before I updated. And I have never once had spam. The just chose to attack when 1.5 was published as a release candidate.

[se.nsuo.us]

OK! for once I am getting hit by real SPAM - this allows me to test and improve the addon :D

[blinking8s]

godspeed on your journey!

[Duct Tape]

i think its more of a timing issue, cause even users I know on 1.4 are getting the spam...and I didnt update till today, so the spam came before I updated. And I have never once had spam. The just chose to attack when 1.5 was published as a release candidate.

I have 2 photoblogs running on 1.4.x (each were on different versions).

One i have upgraded from the office with just the 1.5.1rc1 version, and the spam is now being caught, the other, i will be updating based on what i am seeing tonight or tomorrow from home when i have time.

The only problem i have encountered so far is my netscape at the office seems to want to think that every image cued in the database is already viewable, but IE doesn't seem to be having the problem, but the spam isn't getting through, and thats whats important :)

[marc_l]

yeah cool, akismet also detect the "intelligent" spam i got in the last time.

those spam look like normal comments from "user" with english names like "george, britney, bill, jake" etc. and have real looking messages like "Wow I like it!", "Nice :)", "Hmm... I do not see anything" or "Great!".
only the link to "their" website identify the spam. its looking like this example "beam.to/xxx-word".

just for your information ;)

[se.nsuo.us]

those spam look like normal comments from "user" with english names like "george, britney, bill, jake" etc. and have real looking messages like "Wow I like it!", "Nice :)", "Hmm... I do not see anything" or "Great!".
only the link to "their" website identify the spam. its looking like this example "beam.to/xxx-word".

Looks like I have the same kiddie - someday when I have more time I will honeypot him ;)

[se.nsuo.us]

Released the new version http://forum.pixelpost.org/showthread.php?p=27326

[posefius]

Can you tell me whats new in this version?

[se.nsuo.us]

Read for yourself - it is there in the link above:)

[fauxtog]

I'm going to lose my mind. Everywhere I see this info about where to find your Wordpress API Key says the same thing, but that info does not ap[pear on either of my Wordpress blogs. There is no sentence that says “Your WordPress.com API key is:” followed by a string of 12 letters and numbers.

I swear I've clicked on every link to every FAQ about finding the KEY and nothing. Not even one person saying they can't find it. Am I crazy?

[SirBaldMan]

I'm going to lose my mind. Everywhere I see this info about where to find your Wordpress API Key says the same thing, but that info does not ap[pear on either of my Wordpress blogs. There is no sentence that says “Your WordPress.com API key is:” followed by a string of 12 letters and numbers.

I swear I've clicked on every link to every FAQ about finding the KEY and nothing. Not even one person saying they can't find it. Am I crazy?

Look at the bottom of the email from WordPress when you joined wordpress.

[fauxtog]

Ah.... I finally figured it out. You have to have one of their wordpress.COM blogs NOT a Wordpress.ORG blog on your own server. So, I signed up for one of their stupid blogs. My address? http://stupidfuckingapikey.wordpress.com :-)

[se.nsuo.us]

Unfortunately it is a very stupid way to get an API key - I had written about that to them but guess it got lost

[NoWords]

just wanted to say Thanks!!, my spam in comments has dropped to zero!!

[Joe[y]]

I also seem to get more spam since upgrading to 1.5 rc1. I changed to the Sugar theme just after upgrading so can't exactly put my finger on the cause of the increased spam. Prior to the upgrade I used the Simple theme. Could just be a coincidence.

the only coincidence is that a new wave of spam went out as we released 1.5rc... neither the upgrade or changing the templates should have had any effect... actually, in fact - if you hadn't upgraded to 1.5 you'd be getting more spam than you are now.

[familyman]

Se.nsuo.us

Your efforts are greatly appreciated. Thanks for this incredible addon and your contributions to this community!

My thanks also go out to all the wonderful developers who make this software possible. I don't know you all by name but have to give you all a big THANKS!

Bruce
http://www.smartblur.com

P.S. Now for that honeypot idea...

[se.nsuo.us]

Glad it works for you - thanks for the appreciation

[SeLeCta]

how do I add the textbox for typing the code in the comment popup??
or do I have to turn on

[Joe[y]]

how do I add the textbox for typing the code in the comment popup??
or do I have to turn on

you don't need to make any changes in your comment template.

the api key which i think is what you mean needs to be added in a field on your addons page in your admin.

[se.nsuo.us]

how do I add the textbox for typing the code in the comment popup??
or do I have to turn on
In addition to what Joe[y] said perhaps you are looking for the Captcha addon which asks the commentors to type some code in a text box....

[mykodachrome]

I am trying this but I have a quick question - when I open the files from the addon zip folder all the spaces come out as little squares and so it is all just one line of text. If I copy and paste the text into a word file or some other program it is fine and inteligable. Am I doing something wrong?

[victimoffete]

I followed the directions as stated and am now getting the below error..

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '}' in /home/exi58051/public_html/index.php on line 1019

any suggestions as I am do not have a great understanding.

Thanks in advance.

[Connie]

@mykodachrome,


never edit any text in WORD or a textprocessor if you want to use that for a script

you must edit the text in an EDITOR

- which writes only ASCII
- which does not add special formatting
- which is able to edit unicode

check the settings / options of your editor, maybe it is set to a strange codepage?

[victimoffete]

Connie - was that in response to my post?
If so I did not edit any text at all.

never edit any text in WORD or a textprocessor if you want to use that for a script

you must edit the text in an EDITOR

- which writes only ASCII
- which does not add special formatting
- which is able to edit unicode

check the settings / options of your editor, maybe it is set to a strange codepage?

[Connie]

Connie - was that in response to my post?
If so I did not edit any text at all.

No, sorry that was the response to mykodachrome
sorry for troubling you!

[victimoffete]

No, sorry that was the response to mykodachrome
sorry for troubling you!


Hehe sorry I was confused -

Maybe you can shed some light on my error too?

[GeoS]

@victimoffete: reupload it!

[familyman]

Comments marked as Akismet SPAM will be deleted automatically after 7 days


This addon has worked really great (with the exception of a persistent drug spammer) but I noticed that the comments marked as spam (in red) were not automatically deleted after seven days.

Does anyone else have this problem? I could manually go and delete the comments but having them automatically deleted sounds so much easier ;-)

Bruce
www.smartblur.com

[se.nsuo.us]

@familyman - wait a few more days ;-)

[posefius]

Is it possible to change the number of days to delete the comments marked as Akismet SPAM automatically. Im receiving so may SPAM (more than 300 a day). Maybe you can make a parameter of the number of days that you can fill in the addon module. Or a button to delete only all the marked SPAM comments at once.

[obelix]

It is the best thing since sliced bread ;)

All my spam woes disappeared.

MANY many thanks.

[se.nsuo.us]

Thanks for the compliments - about a button to delete all Akismet Marked SPAM - you can click on "Show Akismet Spam" button -> Select All -> Delete Selected comments.

My reasoning for omitting "Delete All SPAM" apart from sheer laziness is that you can very easily delete the false positive comments as well....

[nygorilla]

Installed the addon and notice that now when a comment is left the "pending moderation" message is displayed.

I actually saw this on another site today so I dont think its unique to my installation.

BTW I tried turning moderation on and the comments get immediately displayed, as they are with it off...

[se.nsuo.us]

@nygorilla - I am not able to understand what you are trying to say - can you elaborate a bit
Also did you install version1.1 of the Addon?

[nygorilla]

Thanks for the response se.nsuo.us Definitely used v1.1

Whenever a comment is left the following message appears after the comment.

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"Thank you for visiting and taking the time to comment on a picture. You will be redirected now.

Your comment is received! It will become public after authorizing by photoblog admin."
----------------------

Moderation is not turned on. Other than that the addon is working perfectly. Thanks very much for putting it together.

[se.nsuo.us]

Ah!!! yes thanks - I noticed that now - will fix in next release - however do note that this message is just misleading and does not really put a valid comment in to moderation queue.

[MichaelWm]

For anyone thinking about adding this counter-measure to their PP photoblog, I say go for it! It took me about ten minutes to read the instructions, upload files, and obtain (and use) the key.

The comment spam I've been getting is apparently generated by bots; I have no idea how they work, but 5-6 of 'em come around just after midnite and leave their droppings. After a time, I'll comment here again to let y'all know how well it worked.

An interesting footnote: All the comment spam I received was for a single image. I deleted the picture, but the comments for it kept piling up. Email notifications from PixelPost let me know they'd been posted, but the comments were not visible in Admin! I had to use the mysql database manager provided by my hosting service to find the mess and clean it up.

Many thanks to se.nsuo.us for his time, and skill...

Mike
www.michaelhanson.net

[sal_paradise42]

When I try my key I get the following:

Unable to validate API Key

This is on the webhosters server, on my laptop I can get the key to work. Does it tie it to the domain in any way? if the key is in two places?

[silfver]

Hi!

I just started to use Akismet a week ago. It started out fine! Worked perfectly. But now, all of a sudden, it stopped working. When I report a spam to Akismet I get this following error message: Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to xxxxx08ec8c0.rest.akismet.com:80 in /www.silfvercreations.com/addons/admin_akismet_comment.php on line 119 Can someone please explain what's wrong? I've tried contacting the Akismet Crew, but I guess they're too busy. :l

And one other thing. When I replaced my index.php-file I can't check for Pixelpost updates, instead this message pops up: Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.pixelpost.org/service/version.txt): failed to open stream: Connection refused in /www.silfvercreations.com/admin/view_info.php on line 11 And as I said. The Akismet plug-in worked fine in the beginning. :(

[sentinel]

looks like your server isn't able to connect to the akismet servers.. there might be several reasons. akismet server down, hoster changes fw-policy,.. just two i can think of..

[silfver]

I don't think the Akismet server is down, I've had this problem for a few days now. I'm contacting my host to see if there been some changes in the firewall.

Thanks.

[silfver]

The problem is solved. There was some problem with the server or what ever. My host fixed it.

Thanks again. :)

[Vernon.Trent]

installed and no problems.
thanks for this great addon.

*cheers*

[kvdv]

I'm not a WordPress user, but I do use PixelPost. Now what? Do I need a WordPress.com API key or another one? What's the right key for me and where can I get it? Can't seem to find it on the Akismet site. Thanks in advance people!

[Vernon.Trent]

I'm not a WordPress user, but I do use PixelPost. Now what? Do I need a WordPress.com API key or another one? What's the right key for me and where can I get it? Can't seem to find it on the Akismet site. Thanks in advance people!


1. you go to wordpress page and register. not a blog, but an account
2. after confirmation of your wordpress account, you get an email with your akismet api
3. download and install PP akismet addon
4. enter the api as requested
5. you're done.
6. enjoy :)

all steps are in the entry post of this thread. you just need to read and follow.

[kvdv]

Hi, thanks for the reply, I entered the key and everything seemed to work (the key was validated). But then, after reloading my site, something weird happened. Everything was extremely slow and then my account was automatically suspended by the host. I called them and it seems that the reason was abuse or spam. They're investigating right now. Because nobody else experienced this problems with the Akismet download from this forum, this HAS to be coincidence, right? I'll know more later ... hopefully they can fix it really soon and find the source of the problem. Hell, why did they invent spam? :-)

[davenewt]

I have to add another note of thanks to se.nsuo.us... I've just installed the askimet addon. Very grateful for your work! Fingers crossed it's as effective as I hope!

[MarkP]

Great Addon - it just solved my spam problem at a stroke.
Thanks very much for your efforts :)

Mark P

[bbd]

I'd like to add that note of thanks for this lovely addon. Spam really is insidious and was wrecking my little family foto fun. Ta very much!

[Vernon.Trent]

my first spam arrived and was blocked.
:thumbs up


*cheers*

[se.nsuo.us]

Great to know it is working for so many - there still is a small bug with the auto deletion of SPAM after 7 days will release a fixed version on Monday (just one line fix :) )

[snaefell]

Today I found an improvement of the Akismet plugin for Wordpress. It is described here: http://boakes.org/akismet-htaccess-extension
Is this possibly an improvement for the Pixelpost version of Akismet, too?

[se.nsuo.us]

Thanks! but thankfully my SPAM traffic is nowhere near what the coder of the improvement describes - I guess I will wait a while before coding more on this...

[Pat Chuprina]

Hello all.

Somewhere above I saw:

"I just had a look at my addon and the comment table structure if instead of setting the 'publish' field to 'no' in case of spam it can be set to 'spm' - these comments will still show up as moderated in admin and *not* show on the site

The addon can auto delete the comments flagged with 'spm' after 15 days...."

Where would I find that "switch," and how would benefit from it?

Thanx in advance

Patrick

[se.nsuo.us]

You have to install the latest version of this addon to ge the benefit.

[MichaelWm]

A heavy spam attack on my infrequently-visited photoblog left me with over 1000 comments from "cialis" and "phentermine". Akismet flagged a lot of them, but large numbers were simply not accessable in PP Admin. Later, using phpMyAdmin through my server (eleven2) I somehow managed to delete every comment, including the authentic ones, which I never even saw on the list.

Not a big loss, really, but a hassle, and a waste of time. Blogging of all kinds seems especially susceptible to spam because of the comment feature; I'll probably abandon it again, and very soon, in favor of a static site.

Mike

[Paul Wood]

Feature request: How about a button to immediately delete all comments marked as spam?

I haven't figured out how to show all askimet spam AND more than 10 per page -- not matter what order I select the options, I get askimet and normal comments when I go over 10 per page.

I DO get two commenters that are regularly marked as spam (one has a gmail address, the other is a hotmail address). I report them as ham everytime, and they get marked again the next time. But if I get flooded with dozens or hundreds of spam at once, I'd rather delete them all, including the few legitimate comments, than wade through 'em.

[MichaelWm]

Large amounts of comment spam continue to target my humble little blog, much of it not "visible" in PP Admin. When I use phpMyAdmin to take care of the "invisible" spam, the comment database is cleared; that's how I lost all my comments earlier.

If you are the spammer reading this, what a sad and trivial life you must lead. Why not go beat off again instead, mommy doesn't care...

Mike

[soosh]

Thanks for this addon! I really appreciate it.

[se.nsuo.us]

Hmmm... the spams are not visible in PP admin because the comments are still rendered in HTML

IMHO they should be converted to htmlentities before being shown - this will also mitigate several nasty XSS attack, may be the next version PP will have it

As for the feature request - I might add that whenever I update that next

[jet]

I'm currently based in China and luckily for me www.wordpress.com is blocked by the goverment firewall. I have no idea why they would block wordpress.com... wordpress.org works fine.

So basically, I'm unable to get myself an API key.

Can anyone help? I actually need 2 of them... I have 2 blogs and they're both getting the crap spammed out of them.

[jet]

i managed to get around the great firewall of china using this http://tor.eff.org/index.html.en it's a proxy program, works very well. highly recomend it to anyone having similar problems, or to people not being able to access stuff at work etc.

[jgarde]

Thank you so much for this!

I'd been running my photoblog (http://www.jespergarde.com) for about 9 months without any spam problems until about a week ago when they suddenly started coming about 20 a day.

I first turned moderation on so I could delete the spam before it was published on my blog, but it very soon becomes very tiresome to delete all the spam...

Since installing this addon 3 days ago only one spam has gotten through. All the rest (about 20 a day) have been caught.

Great stuff!

[silfver]

Okay, I don't know why but I think the Akismet plug-in is out of service.

First of all, I wanna say that this script has been working really good. Perfect. Until now.

I keep getting spams. Spams that I've reported as spam before. It's always the same crap; viagra, penis enlarger, ringtones etc. etc.

I get no errors when I report a spam, so why doesn't Akismet understand that all the spam is spam?

Would really appreciate som feedback.

[se.nsuo.us]

This is best answered at Akismet Forums

[silfver]

This is best answered at Akismet ForumsAnd where do I find the forum?

[GeoS]

http://www.google.com/search?q=Akismet

[silfver]

http://www.google.com/search?q=AkismetI can't see any links to the Akismet forum. Do you? ...

[Vernon.Trent]

easy as easy can be http://akismet.com/ :)
contact support forum

[silfver]

easy as easy can be http://akismet.com/ :)
contact support forumI'm sorry, but I don't follow. Do you mean that I should post a request in the contact form? If so - I've already done that.

I really can't find the Akismet forum... :confused:

[rockyrapier]

Has anyone had problems using the akismet addon with PP 1.5 FINAL? I upgraded to FINAL and the addon is no longer seen in the admin panel.

[se.nsuo.us]

The addon needs modification to the index.php - did you do that after you upgraded?

[rockyrapier]

I did follow the directions for modifying the index file. I had the addon working with 1.5RC1. If I make no changes to the files, but do upload the addon to plugin, would I see it in the addon tab in PP? Or is it only seen there after one modifies the files.

As a test I uploaded my old index and comment file and still nothing in the addon tab. I see the Akismet buttons in the comments tab.

[se.nsuo.us]

Just tried it with !.5 final - works fine.... anything else was modified?

[rockyrapier]

Interesting/wierd. The addon is not listed in the addons tab but seems to be picking up spam, as 2 new spam msg's are in the comments tab (highlighted red) and do not show up as comments on the image.

[davenewt]

[EDIT: Found answer, see end of this post!]

Hey folks. I'm running PP 1.5beta, and my comments don't seem to be working any more. Filling in the comments form and clicking "submit" results in a blank page.

I have Askimet installed and all appears to be functioning fine, except no-one can comment. I'm not too fussed, but would be nice to know why. Can anyone shed any light?

URL in sig. Thanks!

EDIT: The Answer!

Ok, so I did some playing around this morning and found that an incorrectly named function was to blame, in includes/functions.php

Found this piece was where the code was falling over (around line 938 of index.php):


// $message
$message = isset($_POST['message']) ? $_POST['message'] : "";
$message = clean_comment($message);

Seems there was no function in the included file, includes/functions.php, which was called "clean_comment" - the function was in fact called "clean". I changed it in all places in the index.php file (about 14 or 15 instances) and now everything appears to be working again.

Just in case anyone has the same problem, or the author of Askimet addon is listening and would like to know!

So you're all invited to www.mondaymorningphoto.com to leave as many comments as you wish, as long as you're not selling ;-)

Cheers,
Dave.

[baziq]

Ok, im one of those who cant fix anything on my own. I need help with akismet or some antispam instalation, those spams will kill me soon. i them. is there any kind man or womna who wants to help me with installation??? Please help me, im desperate now! :confused: :confused: :cry: :cry: :cry:


contact me: contact@baziq.com

[Florid]

Excellent Addon! It's work. I'm glad! Thanks!

[mistralcolors]

Hi,
I've followed explanations from se.nsuo.us but, when I go to my admin addons, I can't see the akismet addon ON and no way to enter my API key. Can I complete the field of the table manually?
Does the addon will work?
PixelPost 1.5

[dstg_ll]

Just wanted to say that i installed this neat little utility and i hope it will block the freakin' spam because i'm getting 800+ goddamn pieces of the nasty meat everyday. So far so good tho. It already stopped 7 of 'em.

Got a question tho; What is the "Report as HAM to Akismet" button ? My guess is that it's the opposite of SPAM ?

[Vernon.Trent]

mark as HAM means = next time don't mark as spam (was marked as spam)

[jgrayson]

Just wanted to say that i installed this neat little utility and i hope it will block the freakin' spam because i'm getting 800+ goddamn pieces of the nasty meat everyday. So far so good tho. It already stopped 7 of 'em.

Got a question tho; What is the "Report as HAM to Akismet" button ? My guess is that it's the opposite of SPAM ?

if you want to get rid of spam then read this thread:
http://forum.pixelpost.org/showthread.php?t=4310

i made the changes and every since i made them a couple months ago i haven't gotten any spam.

[terje]

This is great! It's catching so much spam.

Question; How can I have it permenantly delete incoming spam? Now I got thousands of "pink" spams in my "Comments", all stuff that it caught. Is there a way to have it automatically delete it?

[se.nsuo.us]

It should automagically delete itself in 7 days - you can decrease it to 1 by changing it in the query on line 39 or near there....

Also note that the Delete query is run only if you view the addon's page

[Mornin Java]

I've just implemented this feature to my photoblog at www.pixelshells.com and it appears to be working well so far. I had a spam waiting on me that I reported to Akismet and that's why I say that.

(Allow me to thank you for this info right now. I hate spam.)

Also, I posted a test comment and as it was processing before it posted normally, I viewed the screen that has the message something about it will be public after approval by the Administrator and that is my reason for posting.

The comment went ahead and posted as I expected because I've seen this feature used on other photoblogs, but that message leaves the impression that the comment is going to be held until the Administrator of the site manually approves it.

What file generates that message and can that message be tweaked? Also, is there a CSS file that can be tweaked so that page matches the site?

Java

[Vernon.Trent]

in this case, the "approving admin" was akismet.

[Mornin Java]

Thank you for responding and yes, I figured that much out. Now, from your response I guess there's no tweaking the message or the colors. This Akismet thing is great, but it would have been nice if it had a different message. Functional is good, but functional and good looking is better.

[se.nsuo.us]

The mesage you saw is not from within Akisment Addon - It is built in to Pixelpost....

[Mornin Java]

So, if the message is built into PixelPost then is there a way that I can tweak the wording of that message?

Java

[Mornin Java]

I goofed up bigtime. I was going through quite a few spam comments and reporting them to Akismet and I reported two that were not spam, one was a response comment of my own (go ahead and flog me now).

What do I do to reverse this? Tell me it can be reversed.

Java

[Steefje]

Hi, i've had a photoblog for say ... 9 months now, and just now i'm starting to get spam comments all day long.

So i tried to install the akismet 'addon' sensuous prepared for us (thx for that).
I did everything i was supposed to do, put all the files in their correct pixelpost folder, even had to update my pixelpost version first. Now i see the akismet addon in my addon admin page, but when i insert my api key and press 'update', the page refreshes and at the height where the akismet addon block is supposed to be, this is what appears

Warning: fsockopen() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/vhosts/www.steefje.be/addons/admin_akismet_comment.php on line 118

Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/vhosts/www.steefje.be/addons/admin_akismet_comment.php on line 119

Warning: feof(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/vhosts/www.steefje.be/addons/admin_akismet_comment.php on line 121

Warning: fgets(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/vhosts/www.steefje.be/addons/admin_akismet_comment.php on line 122

the last two warnings keep repeating forever ... and well ..

I was just wondering if anyone's got a clue what's wrong ?

[Connie]

talk with your hoster
they disabled for security reasons a feature which you need for security reasons ;=)

[Steefje]

K, i'll do that .. but for now this error made me exceed the monthly traffic limit so i can't do squat..

[digitalfrog]

Just want to say 'thank you'.
I suddenly received swarms of spam comments and this update sovled the issue.

Great work !

Ralph

[Connie]

hej frog, that is great!

[se.nsuo.us]

Just want to say 'thank you'.


Glad you like it :)

[Stuart]

A great big thanks from me too! I was pulling my hair out, having to manually delete 10+ (and rising) spam comments a day. Akismet does the job nicely!

[Stuart]

Just a quickie. The replacement index.php in the zip file seems to be replacing the <EXIF_*> tags with equivalent <LANG_*> tags...

My template uses (for example) <EXIF_CAMERA_MODEL>, but the site now shows <LANG_CAMERA_MODEL> in spite of what's in the template. I think it looks messy, how would I go about changing that back?

**EDIT**
I found the "// EXIF STUFF" comment in index.php and copied the whole block of code from the 1.5 version into the current "hacked for akismet" index.php. This has restored the clean exif info. (Not bad for a non-programmer, eh?) :)

[ttlive]

Why does Akismet not delete the spam automatically, as I am used it from the WordPress Akismet?

It wold be a nice feature and support for my "spam-deleting-work. ;)

[rtsnoz]

G'day, When i post images to my blog (http://www.rohanthomson.com/pixelpost/) it INSTANTLY has two comments both saying the same stupid thing "good photo" from phentermine with a fake email.... Anyway. so what i want to know is will this modification stop this problem?

[linolium]

Hello, I installed the Akismet add-on to my Pixelpost 1.5 photoblog. Unfortunately, it isn't catching any of the spam comments arriving! Here are some of them:

kocxts dexrk
http://www.xlqkscuo.amdvqryxo.com/
jfygvp xkst hzypxwcuo eyvck tgxcho wjmdznlkq aqcvyz

international airline ticket
http://airlinetickets.awardspace.com/international-airline-ticket/
http://airlinetickets.awardspace.com/international-airline-ticket/ international airline ticket international airline ticket[/url ]

Nivea
http://dorveycheg.org/lolita-nude
http://dorveycheg.org/child-lolita
http://dorveycheg.org/lolita-pussy
http://dorveycheg.org/little-lolitas
http://dorveycheg.org/lollita
http://dorveycheg.org/101-lolitas
http://dorveycheg.org/lolita-tgp
http://dorveycheg.org/lolita-girls

For more, check [url=http://linolium.mine.nu/index.php?showimage=124]here (http://airlinetickets.awardspace.com/international-airline-ticket/ ) for example (until I get around to deleting them all). Should these ones be picked up by Akismet as spam? Because it hasn't marked any one of them...

It also seems like pp_http_post is being successfully called, but returning True, suggesting that the comment is not spam.

Any idea as to what is going on?

[kristarella]

I just went through this whole thread but I'd still appreciate some confirmation on how this works and how I should deal with it.
It caught 21 spam last night (yay!), do they automatically get reported to Akismet?
Are they supposed to delete themselves? I saw something about 7 days, is that the case with the version I downloaded yesterday? Will it still report okay if I delete them manually?
HAM are things that are not spam but got flagged?
Does anyone have a "Add to mooderation queue" button? What is that?!

[joey dee]

Now hop over to http://akismet.com and read about how to get an API key - once you have that key login to your Pixelpost Admin Addon section, you should now see the "Pixelpost Akismet comment filter"

Hey mates,

I don't see that anywhere here: http://akismet.com/development/

What do yo usuggest? I already have a API key for my wordpress blog so how can I get one for my photoblog?

my best,
Joey Dee

[linolium]

I already have a API key for my wordpress blog so how can I get one for my photoblog?

They are the same. Just use the wordpress API key and it should work fine.

[joey dee]

They are the same. Just use the wordpress API key and it should work fine.
Worked - thanks alot, appreciate it!!!!

Joey Dee

[joey dee]

Ohh just a question - i just checked my comments and I see a bunch of spam in there now, normally how would i get rid of all opf these spams... SELECT ALL and click REPORT AS ASKISMET SPAM but they still stay in there they are not deleted, i would have to go back and select all and delete... is that the process? I thought this mod would pick it up like it does on wordpress.. but it doesnt.

if someone can help me out plz,
my best,
Joey Dee

[joey dee]

Cool - but anyone know what'sup with my issue?

[kristarella]

I asked the same question above, but from what I've gathered in the rest of this thread, the spam stays there for 7 or 15 days and is deleted, or you should be able to do it manually if you want.

[Cyrus]

Is there any way to reduce that 7 or 15 day wait before it's deleted to...say.... immediately?

Cheers,

[austriaka]

file: addons/admin_akismet_comment.php
line: 37

If you set this to "0" (instead of "7") the Akismet addon will keep the spam marked comments only the day when they are posted.
You will have no chance of correcting the Akismet unless you check your comments every day.

KArin

[kristarella]

Thanks for that, I've changed mine to 2 days to give me time to check them for real comments.

I haven't figured out how to show all askimet spam AND more than 10 per page -- not matter what order I select the options, I get askimet and normal comments when I go over 10 per page.

I DO get two commenters that are regularly marked as spam (one has a gmail address, the other is a hotmail address). I report them as ham everytime, and they get marked again the next time. But if I get flooded with dozens or hundreds of spam at once, I'd rather delete them all, including the few legitimate comments, than wade through 'em.

I'm having this problem as well, it's a bit annoying to only be able to view ten at a time.

I also made a comment myself (although might have been from a different computer to usual) and it's marked as spam in red, I've reported as HAM but I can't seem to get that comment to show up as legitimate.

Do you need to "report as SPAM" before deleting comments marked in red or have they already been reported?

Gee, nested comments would be handy in a thread this big don't you think?

[se.nsuo.us]

Sometime ago I had posted a hack which allowed viewing of upto 100 comments at the same time - can't find the URL - but it should be there in the hacks forum

Comments in Red are already reported as SPAM you need not do that again.

As for legitimate comments - marking as HAM should revert their status to normal... will look into it.

[kristarella]

Thanks! I'll have a look for that hack and good to know the other stuff :)

[Vernon.Trent]

hm,

marking as HAM does not revert the status to normal.
also I have the "problem" that when I cklik on "show akismet spam", it does not sort and show the marked comments. it shows all.
since a couple of weeks even "good" comments are marked as spam, which were allowed in the past.

[se.nsuo.us]

@Vernon I am not sure I get what you are referring to...
are you saying that the "Show Akismet Spam" is showing comments other than Spam ?

[Vernon.Trent]

@Vernon I am not sure I get what you are referring to...
are you saying that the "Show Akismet Spam" is showing comments other than Spam ?

yes.

[se.nsuo.us]

yes.
Sorry cannot replicate the bug on my setup...

[se.nsuo.us]

Fixed the report as HAM not reverting the status to published. http://se.nsuo.us/contrib/Akismet1.1.zip

[Marek]

I´ve installed the akismet addon and changed the things in index.php and comment.php. I´ve also got a akismet API key. I took the one from my wordpress blog. It´s valid so I think it works. The addon ist active but I´ve got no akismet buttons in the comment section.

[austriaka]

Hello se.nsuo.us,
I have just re-installed your Akismet Addon and have a few notes to make.
In the starting post of this thread you give a small documentation what to do for changing the index.php and comments.php manually.
In index.php:
Nowadays there are two blocks of this code in index.php:
if(is_comment_in_moderation_list($message,$ip,$nam e)){
$cmnt_publish_permission = 'no';
$cmnt_moderate_permission ='yes';
}
The call of the Akismet Addon has to be inserted after the second one, it starts with the commented line
"// send it to moderation if contains banned words but not black listed!"
and is in line 992.
The first block (wrong to call the Akismet Addon here) is in line 620.

in comments.php
Inserting the workspace as you mentioned in the first post here is not enough, there is another important part around line 207 to make the buttons "show Akismet Spam" and "show published comments" work:
if ($_GET['show']=='spams'){
$moderate_where = " and publish='spm' ";
}

if ($_GET['show']=='published'){
$moderate_where = " and publish='yes' ";
}

Comments.php seems to have been changed quite a lot since you published your addon. Just inserting the important-looking lines of your hacked comments.php leads to an empty result in Admin Comments panel.
I really had to replace the comments.php of actual Pixelpost installation with yours, now it is working. But I suspect the changes made in original comments.php made some sense so I feel not really good with replacing it.

Perhaps you could have a look at it and update your addon for the last v1.5 release? Because after correct installatiion it works really smooth and it seems to me the prime method against comment spam.

KArin

[Dennis]

In index.php:
Nowadays there are two blocks of this code in index.php:
if(is_comment_in_moderation_list($message,$ip,$nam e)){
$cmnt_publish_permission = 'no';
$cmnt_moderate_permission ='yes';
}


Karin, you're right about this. We've cleaned this part up in the new version (we couldn't figure out why there were two blocks of code so we did some detailed testing and removed the unnecessary block).

Please be aware all addons have to be checked and updated because the code placement in 1.6 will be very different (lot's of cleanup)

[austriaka]

Karin, you're right about this. We've cleaned this part up in the new version (we couldn't figure out why there were two blocks of code so we did some detailed testing and removed the unnecessary block).
I thought it was something like that - I searched hard for it but didn't find any call for comment save like "comment=save"...
Please be aware all addons have to be checked and updated because the code placement in 1.6 will be very different (lot's of cleanup)I am aware of that. But as long as you don't remove any existing workspaces or rename database fields, the core code should still be ok, or not? (I would be glad to do some testing ;-))

LG
KArin

[Dennis]

I am aware of that. But as long as you don't remove any existing workspaces or rename database fields, the core code should still be ok, or not? (I would be glad to do some testing ;-))
KArin

Yeah, if the addon doesn't require any hacking of the core files it will be fine. If it does, locations might have changed to different lines or even different files.

[austriaka]

Yeah, if the addon doesn't require any hacking of the core files it will be fine. If it does, locations might have changed to different lines or even different files.We all hope that with v1.6 it isn't nacessary any more to hack the core files ;-))
KArin

[rodique]

Ok.
Got problem.
@Unable to validate API Key "Days to keep" succesfully saved.@
cant enable tis addon.
I was trying different API keys/different computers/different PP versions/different Internet Providers/ and even different countries --- NO LUCK.

Can someone please help me to solve this problem?

[Dennis]

What version are you using? PP1.6 has akismet as an addon so you won't need to hack stuff.

[rodique]

What version are you using? PP1.6 has akismet as an addon so you won't need to hack stuff.

Im using PP 1.6. But the addon need API key. Wright? So i have it, but when i trying to validate it i see this: Unable to validate API Key

[Vernon.Trent]

mine works fine

-----
Pixelpost Add-On to filter spam using Akismet (Info).

API key validated succesfully."Days to keep" succesfully saved.
You need an API key from Wordpress.com for working this Addon.
----

[rodique]

mine works fine

-----
Pixelpost Add-On to filter spam using Akismet (Info).

API key validated succesfully."Days to keep" succesfully saved.
You need an API key from Wordpress.com for working this Addon.
----

I HAVE 10 API keys. The problem is that i cant validate it.

[Dennis]

please contact austriaka on this. She has the answer hopefully

[blinking8s]

I just downloaded a fresh 1.6.0 from the homepage, installed, then signed up for a new akismet api key


API key validated succesfully."Days to keep" succesfully saved.

[rodique]

I just downloaded a fresh 1.6.0 from the homepage, installed, then signed up for a new akismet api key

I just downloaded 1.6 from the PP Forum, Kill ALL Previous data. REinstalled. Get new API key

Unable to validate API Key"Days to keep" succesfully saved.

dont work!!! what to do!!!

please contact austriaka on this. She has the answer hopefully
She dont answer me yet....

[blinking8s]

austriaka is on vacation right now, she will be back after the weekend i think

[austriaka]

I am back.
rodique, did you resolve your issue?
KArin

[rodique]

I am back.
rodique, did you resolve your issue?
KArin

Hello. No. Still cant validate the API key

[rodique]

Done.
It works now.
Thanks to all of you, and personal ThankYou to austriaka.

[austriaka]

Rodique, I am glad it is working for you now.
The reason was the host, not the addon script *phew* ;-)

For Akismet working correct, the php function fsockopen() has to be performed. After the ISP allowed fsockopen for the akismet server (akismet.com or rest.akismet.com) everything was ok.

KArin

[derlitograph]

Rodique, I am glad it is working for you now.
The reason was the host, not the addon script *phew* ;-)

For Akismet working correct, the php function fsockopen() has to be performed. After the ISP allowed fsockopen for the akismet server (akismet.com or rest.akismet.com) everything was ok.

KArin

Hi austriaka,

can I use Askimet only for usefull spam protection? I have it already and
CAPTCHA also. But I would like to delete the CAPTCHA-addon because I think
it creates problems with normal comments "You are a robot" also.

How to make it right?
How to delete / deinstall CAPTCHA completely?

Should I?

Manuel

[sentinel]

hi manuel!

deinstalling the captcha-hack is quite easy (if you were following the instructions in the readme when you installed it):

- remove tha <CAPTCHA> tag from your template
- replace the modificated index.php (delivered with the hack) with the original index.php.
- additionally you should remove the anti_comment_spam.php and captcha.php files in the include folder. (they aren't used by the default index.php)
- [optinal] remove the lines in pixelpost.php in case you changed the default colors of the captcha

[derlitograph]

I don't know if I have the original index.php somewhere.
Does Askimet work good as standalone?

[austriaka]

yes, together with the 1.6 which has strong built-in spam defeat it is almost 100%

[Dkozikowski]

akismet does a decent job in catching spam. When you upgrade to Pixelposr1.7, you will have the option of using a brand new spam catching service named Defensio. I hear is just as good (if not better) than akismet.

[derlitograph]

I'm really a bit scarred of updating to NEW pixelpost version. I managed a lot without even knowing good HTML and so on but the last time I was trying to update I killed my whole blog and all the images were deleted. I don't know how to backup and install correctly in each step allthough I read a lot about it. SQL is difficult etc.

[austriaka]

so please wait for the 1.7 version to become public, then there will be a detailed instruction for backup in the documentation section

[derlitograph]

okay. and until it will be published I take out the captcha addon. When will the 1.7 be released?

[Dkozikowski]

There is a release canidate avaliable for download now. A final release will be ready soon.

[hismuse]

I'm confused, with the new upgrade do I still have to add html to make it work?

[Dennis]

What do you mean? Add HTML? For what?

[austriaka]

I'm confused, with the new upgrade do I still have to add html to make it work?
You mean the Akismet Addon? No, you don't have to add anything for making it work. Just get your Worpress Key at http://wordpress.com, enter it in the field in Admin Options Spam control page, set the days you want to keep the Akismet and it will start catching spam for you. Akismet Addon is no hack anymore but an official and real Pixelpost Addon