Akismet Down

WordPress bloggers should beware of spam right now: Akismet, the integrated spam-catcher, appears to be down, or at least is showing “API Key invalid”. The spammers are running rampant. I would be very reluctant to have barriers to commenting, such as moderation or catchpas, so have just installed the very latest versions of Spam Karma 2, and Bad Behaviour. Also been thinking up a long list of dirty words to ban outright over at our kids’ site, Storynory.

P.S. Instead of reinstalling Akismet, I’ve added this plugin within a plugin to Spam Karma 2. SK2 checks comments against Akismet’s blacklist of bad commenters, giving you the best of these two plugins.


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One Response to “Akismet Down”

  1. LOLO punto ES » Blog Archive » Nuevos problemas con Akismet
    16. December 2006 at 21:42

    [...] UPDATE: Parece que el problema es que no se valida la API IDE de wordpress desde Akismet. Seguramente por los problemas de dns y derivados :-( He solucionado la papeleta metiendo el Spam Karma 2 (que me ha sorprendido bastante) con un plugin que hace que use como filtro añadido Akismet :-) Por lo visto no he sido el único caso. [...]

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