A great news for WordPress users. Few minutes ago Akismet 2.2.5 was released. Now you can catch the spam comments in more better way.
In this release, Akismet Included a new Server Connectivity diagnostic check, which will help you to detect problems caused by firewalls.
Akismet explains more about it as:
The new Server Connectivity diagnostic feature detects problems caused by firewall or security software on some web hosts. If a web hosting company or server administrator blocks connections to Akismet.com, the Akismet plugin will be impaired or stop working altogether. The diagnostic feature will detect this and provide information that the web host can use to update their firewall to enable Akismet.
Hope you will update to it asap. to Fight against Spam Comments more properly.
Just wanna say, no one software/plugin can prevent spam 100%. So, don’t hope too much. But of course i’m thanks for New Akismet 2.2.5 development, because it’s make spam prevention more better, i believe.
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Just updated akismet about 30 minutes ago. Thanks for the heads up though.
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Looks like eventually I am going to have to figure out Word Press. Sounds like all the good stuff is made for that blog. Might try it on mine anyway.
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its also a nice plugin, but i have upgraded already
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I have updated already, but do not really understand the full impact of the new version. I will have to wait and see what happens and try to better understand the changes made.
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Will upgrade to new Akismet 2.2.5 now, have u upgraded on ur blog ?
Dugg this post 😉
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And so this is todays blogosphere buzz 😀 Thanks for sharing Sushant 😀
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Akismet is great but I have found that once your blog get read and popular – it is simply not enough. Looking into additional plugins to complement it can be of benefit 🙂
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Believe it or not I do not use Akismet on any of my blogs. I am not sure why I have always used another plugin for spam. I am happy to report that I do not have an issue with spam at all.
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@Tycoon Blogger, oh really? What plugin you use? I’m recommended to use askimet for spam by many people, but if there is a better one, i wanna try also. Because sometime i do commenting contest and get so many spam
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Akismet is a great tool, hopefully made even better by this update. My blog isn’t that popular but I probably get around 600 spam messages per month, all of which are caught by Akismet. Out of these 600 I’ll only find one or two genuine comments, which is a great ratio. Most of my spam seems to be Russian (or similar) site with loads of links – why do they even waste their time trying?
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They are actually not wasting their time they are making money or bringing traffic to their sites by spamming. Actually there are millions of wordpress blogs and most of them haven’t enabled any spam fighting plugin due to very less knowledge or something else. So most of the spam comments get published their and they get success in their goal.