Anti-spam mod request

[Daniel15]

Hmmm... I never thought of error handling in the Akismet class, as I thought it was controlled by the class I used (a freely-available Akismet PHP4 class). I'll look into implementing better error handling.

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[Laibeus Lord]

Cool.  All seems well with the new version

Glad to see it into fruition

Die spammers!!

[Jacen]

Hmmm... I never thought of error handling in the Akismet class, as I thought it was controlled by the class I used (a freely-available Akismet PHP4 class). I'll look into implementing better error handling.

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I think I'll wait for this to be fixed before trying it

[Daniel Hofverberg]

Same here. It's a great idea, but something needs to be done so that the forum still works if the Askismet server is down.

[Daniel15]

Yeah, very sorry about that guys, I'll fix it as soon as possible...
If the server's down (very rarely happens), should the posts just be marked as non-spam, and allowed to be posted? Or should they be marked as spam, and then it asks you to check them?

[Daniel Hofverberg]

Personally, I think it makes most sense to mark messages as non-spam if the server can't be reached. After all, there are probably much more legitimate posts then spam, so it makes more sense to me.

[Daniel15]

Yeah, thanks for the suggestion Daniel, I'll do that then

After all, there are probably much more legitimate posts then spam

Yeah, I forgot it was a forum... My blog is completely different (about 400 spam comments, and about 10 legitimate )

[Jacen]

I have a couple of seperate ideas.

1: Fall back on the moderation system. Mark them as reported to a moderator.
2: Allow them tobe posted but mark them as need to be checked.

[Dannii]

I'd borrow/remake some code from the visual warning mod and put those posts into a moderation queue.

[Col]

Using a queue or flags is a good idea for some, but if you have busy forum, and the Akismet server cannot be reached for some time, there will be an awful lot of posts to check. It might be better to have options to handle this, and maybe even a maximum number in the queue before they are allowed to be posted as usual. All configureable, of course.

Oh, how about this! What if when the Akismet server cannot be reached, the posts are allowed to be posted, flagged (visually, and with code), so that when Akismet is back up, the posts are then checked, and if need be, removed retrospectively. I'd suggest that there should be a delay between each post being checked, so that Akismet is not flooded from many SMF forums catching up with spam-filtering.