I’ve been getting hit up with a fair amount of spam lately on the blog.  The Akismet spam filter plugin has done a pretty good job of handling the majority of comment and link spam, but every couple of days I have to come in and manually delete a comment that made it through the filter.

I was browsing through my reader the other day when I came across an interesting plugin called Spam Karma 2.  Here’s a description of it as written by Ajay on the Weblog Tools Collection blog.

Description:
Spam Karma 2 (SK2) is an anti-spam plugin for WordPress. It is meant to stop all forms of automated Blog spam effortlessly, while remaining as unobtrusive as possible to regular commenters.

How it works:

SK2 comes feature packed with everything you need to keep your blog spam free. It includes a whole arsenal of filters that incoming comment has to go through. Each of these filters assigns a score called karma. Comments which end up with a negative karma are flagged as spam.

Some of the inbuilt filters include javascript payload, link count, page load time (stopwatch), post age and blacklists.

There are also “sub-plugins” available for Spam Karma.  I went ahead and installed the two that Ajay tried out:  An Akismet plugin that allows Spam Karma to detect anything that’s on the Akismet list, and the Moderate plugin, which respects the moderation settings you have set up in your Discussion Options.

Sounds like a solid deal, eh?  I’ve got Spam Karma installed now, so I’ll be interested to see how it operates over the next couple of weeks.  I’ll post an update later on.