Tag: wordpress

TrollGuard – protects your blog from spam comments

Me and Roger have just finished TrollGuard – an anti-spam plugin to WordPress 2.7 or later.

The plugin is in Beta and we are aware of some lacking features – however we would greatly appreciate if someone out there wanted to do some testing for us and come back with feedback!

This has been a small sideproject we did during our Christmas holidays using the uClassify API. We think it’s really cool that in less than a week we were able to setup a new Akismet service. Previous uClassify web applications have mostly been for entertainment, this plugin will acctually do something helpful – protect blogs from spam comments.

We are also confident in the accuracy of TrollGuard as similar classification technology has been used in Cactus Spam Filter since 2004.

Well now it’s up to you to test it! What isn’t working? What features are missing? Let us know!

Check TrollGuard out!

Donate your spam!

We are evaluating our next move and are running preliminary tests on spam comments (spaments?). We only have a few corporas to test on and it looks good on those (I’ll get back with exact performance later).

We want your blog comments for a good cause

Following our own guidelines we are looking for more data to test on. If you have a WordPress installation you can help us out by:

  1. Log into phpMyAdmin
  2. Select your WordPress database
  3. Click on the table ‘wp_comments’
  4. Click on ‘Export’
  5. Select the XML format
  6. Check ‘Save to file’ and click ‘Run’
  7. Attach the exported XML to an e-mail for contact AT uclassify DOT com

We will not publish any comments without asking you for permission first. Also you will be credited with your name and blog when we return with the classifier results for your comments.

Thank you!