Akismet Anti SPAM AddOn/Hack

[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]

Originally Posted by se.nsuo.us

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]

Originally Posted by Paul Wood

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]

Originally Posted by se.nsuo.us

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!