Comments on: Comment Spamtrap

By: seengee

seengee — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:06:13 +0000

@dwasifar sorry to hear its not working for you. Out of interest, what charset are you using on your site?

By: dwasifar

dwasifar — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:11:22 +0000

I had the same problem as WS (though I plan to be nicer about it). All comments, including my own, wound up in the spam folder.

As a temporary workaround, I removed the “thanks” variable check from the CheckSpamTrap function, leaving this: if (!empty($_POST[$this->sitevar.'_var_sorry']) != ”) { $isspam = ’spam’; }

This allows real humans to post comments without false positives. I will watch it over the next few days and see if it also lets spambots through.

Could this be a characterset issue, causing “thanks” in the variable to not match the hardcoded constant? Just guessing; php is not my forte.

By: Pigster

Pigster — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:24:09 +0000

Oh and ‘Thank You!’.

Every little helps, as they say.

Much appreciated.

By: Pigster

Pigster — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:23:33 +0000

It appears to be working fine for me. No problems at all.

By: seengee

seengee — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 09:18:28 +0000

@WS it certainly doesn’t mark everything as spam in all circumstances as your comment has come through fine. I’ve sent you an email

By: WS

WS — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:30:13 +0000

Your plugin marks everything as spam, even though I’m logged into my own blog. I like this method of spam prevention, but this plugin clearly needs a lot of work before its usable.

Dealing with spam is one thing, but I never want it to even remotely interfere with legit people posting. I’d rather turn off all spam measures before giving anyone of my readers even the smallest problem posting.

By: seengee

seengee — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:29:34 +0000

thanks for checking out the plugin. It seems my previous method for hiding these fields will not be compatible with all themes so i have now updated this. An update should be available very soon.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:10:09 +0000

About Comment Spamtrap -
Installed to Wordpress 291. I see you’re using it here, but correct me if I’m wrong. The description says the 2 fields are ‘hidden from browsers by CSS’ which tells me a human can’t visually see the 2 fields on the page – but like here – I do see them. With people being people somebody will try to type in the fields anyway. I can see it now: They see ‘thanks’ and decide to sign their name there instead. An honest mistake that causes their bonifide comment to be treated as spam. I changed the word ‘thanks’ to ‘do NOT type in these 2 boxes’. At least this warns people (not bots) to not type in the boxes.