Andy has uploaded the new GrowMap Anti-Spambot Plugin to the Official WordPress Plugin Repository. I will ask Derek to add a Tab to make it easier to access. Please see the page with full details about this new alternative to Akismet here.
If you are using our plugin please visit the GrowMap Anti-Spambot Plugin page in the Official WordPress plugin repository and vote on how the plugin works for you so that bloggers who do not know us know they can trust it.
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The Akismet alternative has arrived by the looks of things. I can’t wait to try the new wordpress plugin your talking about
This will be HIGHLY Recommended from me! You have my assurace.. 😉
Akismet has just blocked my url even though my comments are genuine. What will I do ? Considering that most blogs today use Akismet. It’s terrible.
Hi Raymond,
Thousands of the best blogs now use our plugin instead. A few of them use Akismet too but now they will be able to see the real comments more easily because most spam is botspam and G.A.S.P. blocks it.
Not to worry – just focus on CommentLuv-enabled blogs that use our plugin too. You do know there is a CommentLuv Search Engine?
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thanks for your hardworking, GrowMap
i hate akismet huh, it is waste these days
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I just installed the plugin today, and it’s working fine for most comments. However, I’ve discovered that commenters who use Google Chrome as their browser can’t leave comments. They get the message that they need to enable JavaScript, but they already have it enabled. Any suggestions?
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Hi Lillie,
Which version of the plugin did you install? I will contact Andy and have him check for that. I thought that issue was found and resolved in a very early version.
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I’m using Version 1.1, which is the one I found through WordPress plugins. Since I posted my original comment, I have learned that people using Firefox and Safari can’t comment on my blog either. They are all getting the same error message that they need to enable JavaScript but they all have it enabled.
I’m using the Revolution theme, and I have several other comment plugins activated, also: CommentLuv, DoFollow, Edit Comments, KeywordLuv, Live Comment Preview, WP Ajax Edit Comments. Maybe there is a conflict with the theme or one of the other plugins. It appears that only people using Internet Explorer can comment.
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You’re using two edit comment plugins??
If it helps, I am using all those except Live Comment Preview and your first edit comments plugin. I have not heard any complaints.
My do follow plugin is No Follow Free.
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Oops! Sorry, I’m using WP Ajax Edit Comments–I meant to delete the first item when I put the full name.
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I deactivated Live Comment Preview to see if that made a difference and checked in Google Chrome and got the same message. I use the DoFollow plugin–I wonder if I should change to the one you use.
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Worth a shot Lillie.
I too am in contact with many with the plugin, and I too have never heard these particular problems before.
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now many people already use it and it’s cool!
However, I cannot use it on two of my blogs, so I use another plugin instead. That might cause by the theme compatibility isssue, as usual
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Hi Affan,
If you have Themes that are not compatible you are the first to report that. Please provide which Theme(s) and which version so we can look into fixing it.
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Hey! I just tried installing this on my site (cuz I think it’s an awesome idea), and I activated the plugin, but the checkbox didn’t show up under my comments field. Any idea what could be causing that? Is it not plug and play?
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Actually, let me amend that to say that the checkbox doesn’t display in Google Chrome, but it does in Firefox and IE. Hmmm.
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It’s displaying for me in Chrome. You wouldn’t be logged in to your site, would you? I think that prevents it from displaying.
Oh, wow! Thanks Lester! Yes, I WAS signed in, so that was the problem! Appreciate you!
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Just when i thought the nightmare was over, the spam resumed today and they all originate from this IP address ONLY : 173.224.212.213
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I think that’s the IP from which I had four spam comments today. When I went to check them, GASP had been deactivated. I seem to be the only person in the world this happens to, and it sure is a nuisance.
Me too – I’ve had 3 from that IP but it’s only a fraction of the spam I used to have to check.
Only consolation is that they have had to type out the comments themselves… or am I missing something?
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I disabled, deleted and reinstalled the plug-in and the spam comments stopped getting through ;-). There was probably a glitch during the upgrade process. Review coming up hopefully next week. Cheers
Will have to implement this on my blog. Thanks!
I can happily attest to the fact that GrowMap AntiSpam Plugin (GASP) just works! I’m using latest version of WordPress (3.01) and I haven’t experienced any issues. Since I installed GASP (about 5 days ago), I have only had ONE (yep, 1) spam message. But it was not left by a spambot, it was a human! (Shame, shame!)
GASP’s record is much, much better than Askimet’s. But to be fair, Askimet did flag almost every spam message, while unfortunately catching a few non-spammers in its net, too. But like others have said, I’m all-too-glad not to have to dig my legitimate commenters out of the moderation queue. GASP doesn’t let them in in the first place, so there’s no time wasted.
Voted for it WPHonors and added a plug over at the WordPress Support Forum. Thanks to Andy Bailey for creating the plugin, and thanks to Gail for providing support. Gotta love the ComLuv community!
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I am also looking for an Akismet alternative, my inbox is a mess lately with Akismet installed. Gonna give this a try today 🙂
Patel
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Nearly 3-weeks for me, no spam. 🙂
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This is a great new plugin, I prefer it massively over the captcha… the number of times that has driven me mad lol.
I shall use and promote.Thanks.
Took the plunge and installed the plugin after reading @DragonBlogger’s review. Let’s see how things go over the next few days. Hoping for the BEST 😉
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The plug in sounds great. I better try this one and for I’m sure it could really a big help. Thanks for introducing this one. It will definitely cut off those spammers. Surely, I will introduce this to my friends if it works great.
Congrats to you for this new plugin 🙂
Congratulations on the launch of this new plug-in ;-).
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hi!
Great plug-in, thanks for introduce. i find it quite helpful.
Thanks for creating this! I installed it last Friday, and deactivated Akismet and I have only gotten one spam comment since then. It was from a real person though! Its working as it should be all the normal spam thats sits in the spam folder and pending folder has stopped completely.
I went out and gave it a thumbs up… Thanks again for get us a new and working anti-spam plugin.
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You’re welcome, James,
We have many to thank from Andy to Phil to Donna to every blogger who is using it and helping spread the word. I will share your post and as soon as time allows I will be linking to all the bloggers who are using it.
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Great plug-in. This is indeed a good post on anti-spam-boat. I’ll try this plug in and recommend it my friends. I thinks this is the kind of plug in that every blogger must taken into consideration.
As you know Gail, I am already using it on two blogs and I have had zero spam since. 😉
I will go to the wordpress site and add my thumbs up next. 😉
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Hi Rob,
If you have a minute could you click IT WORKS again when you install the latest version? Apparently each new version we have to do that again as the counter resets.
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Is that the newest version linked above, still labeled 1.0.1?
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Gail, I’m very interested in this plugin, especially since I had a recent problem with Akismet.
I am concerned about having to check a box at the end of the comment. My instinctual reaction is to NOT check boxes on websites. And most of who comment a lot on blogs are used to seeing the box to check if we want all future comments on that post sent to us, which most of us don’t — so we’re conditioned to not check boxes down there.
Of course, GASP could eventually train people to overcome this.
Case in point: I automatically hit Submit without checking the box! Good thing you have the warning.
Hi John,
We have Dazzlin Donna Fontenot to thank for the warning popup. Originally you would be taken to another page and half the time your comment would not be preserved when you click back. That was a huge leap forward thanks to her being a programmer.
Funny that you think not checking boxes is the instinct and others think checking them is. Regardless, that is how it works and it has made blogging a joy again for so many bloggers already that I believe most will just check the box when they see the reminder.
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thanks for sharing , I am tired from those generic comments i get day in and day out. Will definitely enable the plugin on my blog
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Hi Lina,
You may still get a few of those because they can still be left manually – they just can’t be automated.
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That’s great to know about the anti-spam bot plug-in. It is really a hack to pointy out spammers. I hope that it would lessen the mess on my blog.
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The plugin is working brilliant upgraded to the latest version and guest what spammers are dead for now
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Hi Lawmacs,
Andy did incoporate techniques to keep the bot-spammers from easily defeating the plugin. If they ever do manage to get past it I have no doubt that Andy will be able to alter it to lock them out again.
Have you joined our private blog collaboration yet? Details in the post I’ll feature in CommentLuv in this reply.
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Just downloaded off Blazing Minds – will post about testing it myself as soon as I get it installed. 😉
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HI Dennis,
That is great news. Thank you.
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Hi Gail
I’m using Akismet at the moment but still have to check span a couple of times daily.
This sounds interesting… simply click a check box and not have to type in a Captcha code. Thanks for all your efforts on the plugin.
Slava mentioned that submit button should be last – think that I agree with that.
Can you use it in combination with Akismet or do the two plugins confict?
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Hi Keith,
Did you know that Akismet can delete comments you never see if you have one box checked in the configuration? I once thought as long as I rescued comments from the spam section and did not have that instant delete configured that using Akismet was a good idea. I no longer believe that.
When someone leaves a comment they should receive a message that says their comment is being moderated. That doesn’t happen if you have Akismet installed and they have been flagged.
Even worse is the white page that commentators get and their comment instantly deleted in posts older than 30 days if they have been flagged and the blog has that one box checked.
I will discuss the position of the check box in relation to the submit button with Andy. He may have had a reason for positioning it where it is. The good news, though, is that if you do forget it you just get a message and never leave the page or lose what you have typed in. (That was the improvement suggested by Donna.)
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Just deactivated Akismet and added GASP.
I’ll let you know how it goes.
Fingers crossed. LOL
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Hi Keith,
We personally use it in twelve blogs we manage or co-manage and so far we have had no issues and no bot-spam get through. Since every blog has a different mix of WP version, Theme and plugins there is always a slight chance of a conflict but none have been reported so far.
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Not a single spam comment since installing GASP.
This plugin will spread like wildfire!
Many thanks to you and Andy Bailey.
Hi Keith,
We think so. We did have one blogger complain that if you have java turned off you can’t comment, but who uses the Internet with that off? I don’t believe we can really trust Google Analytics data on that because you can’t tell which are real people and which are bots and other visitors.
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Today I got 20-something spam comments from one of the blogs where I have this new plugin. When I checked, I found the plugin had been deactivated… and not by me. I’ve had this happen many times with SI Captcha, and I don’t understand why I’m not seeing other reports of this. It looks like someone has figured out how to deactivate plugins!
Hi Lane,
I’ve seen the same thing in blogs. When we were using a couple of our newer blogs to test to see if specific bloggers were flagged as spammers I was positive that I had the Akismet “delete immediately” check box UNCHECKED only to find it checked again.
The first thing to ask ourselves is who else could have changed that (i.e. who else has Admin access in our blogs). After that, I believe that Automattic, WordPress, or anyone they give access may be able to make changes even if we have our blogs hosted elsewhere.
We would prefer that they not be able to do that but it is certainly within the realm of possibility. We must all be more vigilant at knowing what is configured in our blogs and raise awareness any time strange things happen.
The other strange thing about WordPress is that even in blogs where Akismet is turned off, where comments go that you try to approve is erratic. I have two lists to prove that: on one clicking not-spam sends comments to trash and on the other comments go to pending.
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I had a bunch of spam comments in three blogs this morning. Sure enough, GASP had been deactivated. I use Secure WP, Login Lockdown, something other than “admin” for username, no other users, and I changed all the text fields in GASP. Arrrrgh!
Hi Lane,
Maybe there is a back door that can be used by officials at WordPress? So far you are the only one I’ve seen report anything like that. I will keep my eyes and ears open and let you know if I hear of any others.
There is a new version because some blog themes had some kind of problem that was affecting the original versions. We need more people to click IT WORKS on the WordPress page even if they did it before. That apparently gets reset with each new version.
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Excellent, but you should display “Check box to confirm you are NOT a spammer” ABOVE the submit button. The submit button is considered “the end” of form, so I wouldn’t even notice the checkbox if it wasn’t for the article describing how your plugin works.
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Welcome Slava,
I am sure that Andy will be reading all the input about it and will consider your suggestion. One improvement Andy made to the plugin already is what happens if you forget to check the box. Try “forgetting” once to see what happens and you’ll see that won’t be a major concern.
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I’ve installed it and it works a treat – as above my only concern is I wish the check box could be moved above the submit button – any news on this? cheers,
Excellent news. I shall use and promote.
Andrew
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Thank you Andrew. I need to add a request that users please visit the page for the GrowMap Anti-SpamBot Plugin in the WordPress plugin repository and indicate that it works for them so that bloggers who do not know us will know whether to trust it or not.
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Oh, right – the plugin’s been released (I just commented on another posting saying I look forward to it). Will give it a shot on one of my sites. Andy’s great, so I’m sure it’ll be good.
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Hi Stephen,
I will be updating all those other posts that is has been released. You’re just too quick for me. I only wrote this post and the Official GrowMap Anti-Spam Plugin page after I wished I was asleep this morning.
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Sorry I was so anxious to upload the plugin that I made a typo on my email address in the first comment. I don’t want to show up as shadow man. Thanks!
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Hi Ileane,
I deleted the other comment but now I wish I had saved the other details you shared. Got too fast with the delete process. Oops.
Thank you for being one of the first to start using this great plugin Andy wrote for us. It has saved me sooooo much time already!
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Hi Gail, no worries about the first comment. I was really anxious to record a screencast and write a blog post about the plugin and to thank you guys for creating it. It’s been a labor of “luv” and I congratulate you on a job well done. When you get a chance please visit the blog and add any additional information or links that we can take advantage of. This is really a big deal and I’m happy to be one of the first users of GASP. I also encourage everyone to rate the plugin so that as many WordPress users as possible will see how valuable it is.
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Thank you so much for your support Ileane,
I will definitely raise visibility on your new post about the importance of this plugin for bloggers, their readers, businesses and especially commentators.
Yes, it really IS a big deal and I am thankful to all who have helped make this alternative to Akismet a reality.
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