[OSM-dev] Spam in Users' Diaries and Users' Pages

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Tue Mar 16 11:43:25 GMT 2010


On 16/03/10 11:33, Lars Francke wrote:

> I don't have any developer experience with it but Akismet[1] seems to
> work quite well on Wordpress and we seem to get the same kind of spam
> I regularly see in my Wordpress spam queue. They seem to be focused
> solely on blogs and especially Wordpress blogs but they have an
> API[2]. They also have Non-profit plans[3] but they require links to
> wordpress.com and akismet.com on every page.
>
> Would that be an option? I don't know any but I'm sure there are
> alternatives to Akismet out there.

I already looked at Akismet but as you say, we would have to pay unless 
we counted as a non-profit and then we would have to put links everywhere.

Tom

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