Spam Karma 2 Akismet Plugin

I have updated the Spam Karma 2 Akismet Plugin that was released as BETA some months ago. I don’t want to be like all those hip web 2.0 permanent betas, so we leave this state for now. I bumped the version number of this small plugin to 2.0 and made some modifications:

fixed a logic error which prevented the plugin to submit some corrections to Akismet.com
changed some strings and default values (now checks against Akismet.com more often to give that service more to eat)
there is now a little readme in the php-file
fsockopen could produce php warnings which revealed the wordpress.com api key which was fixed, too

The location of the plugin is the same as before: sk2_akismet_plugin.zip

Make sure you have an installed Spam Karma 2.x, download the zipfile, unzip it to your wp-content/plugins/SK2/sk2_plugins directory and enter your WordPress.com Api Key (now available for free if you sign up there and I should get money for referring people there *g*) in the Spam Karma 2 settings. Finished! Nothing more to do for you :-)
If you are upgrading, you only need to copy the sk2_akismet_plugin.php from the zip over your old one.

Have a spamless blog and a good time!

P.S.: Bug reports go into the comment section. Thanks!

P.P.S.: 156 downloads of the beta in the last 3 months. Thanks!

Update:
Version 2.1 now features the display of its own version and I have recorded 640 downloads so far :-)

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Ajay D'Souza sagte am Dienstag, 31. Januar 2006 um 7:09 :

Good job on this. Does the plugin look up Akismet while SK2 calculates the karma?
Ajay sagte am Dienstag, 31. Januar 2006 um 7:11 :

Apparently the apostrophe in my name causes a problem with the comments on your site!
Sebbi sagte am Dienstag, 31. Januar 2006 um 7:33 :

Thanks Ajay (fixed that apostrophe error). The plugin checks the comment against Akismet after SK2 calculated the karma. You can change that behaviour by assigning different values to the “register_plugin” function call at the bottom of the php file, but the default (executed as the last plugin) should be ok for everyone.
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Viper007Bond sagte am Donnerstag, 9. März 2006 um 2:40 :

Thanks for this great plugin! I was debating which plugin to use (SK2 or Akismet) and now I can have the best of both!
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Christian sagte am Freitag, 5. Mai 2006 um 20:05 :

Habe jetzt das SK2 Askimet Plugin auch installiert, nachdem mir heute ein spambot durch SK2 gerutscht ist.

Komischerweise funktionierte der Trackback nicht. Im Spamfilter haengengeblieben?
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zaniwoob sagte am Samstag, 20. Mai 2006 um 20:07 :

Great work! I recently noticed that some spam gets through the “bare” SK2 plugin. I hope the last remaining few commentspams get caught by this addition !

BTW: Nice theme. ;-)
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Phil sagte am Mittwoch, 31. Mai 2006 um 21:32 :

I use WordPress on my hosted account. I just unstalled SK2 and uploaded sk2_akismet_plugin.php to the proper directory. I do not see SK2-Askimet on the plugin screen. Is it just working automatically?
Phil sagte am Mittwoch, 31. Mai 2006 um 21:34 :

I meant to write installed, not unstalled!
Sebbi sagte am Mittwoch, 31. Mai 2006 um 23:27 :

Hello Phil, the plugin will not be listed in the normal pluginlist, but instead inside the spam karma management screen …
Phil sagte am Donnerstag, 1. Juni 2006 um 7:04 :

Thanks. I finally figured out how to get the API key, from a WordPress.com blog.

I noticed that SK2 is available under both the Manage tab and the Options tab. I use WordPress v.2.0.2

Phil
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sygyzy sagte am Dienstag, 27. Juni 2006 um 22:55 :

Are you supposed to activate the Akismet plug-in that comes with WP?
Sebbi sagte am Mittwoch, 28. Juni 2006 um 0:17 :

Hello sygyzy, no you aren’t. This plugin here is a complete implementation (you may say copy) of the original plugin. The wordpress plugin api doesn’t allow for multiple plugins to classify a comment … only the last one that sees the comment decides if it’s spam or ham. Therefor this “copy” of the original was neccessary :-)
sygyzy sagte am Mittwoch, 28. Juni 2006 um 0:33 :

Sebbi – Just for clarification’s sake. I upload your plugin and activate it. When I go to the plugin page in WP, I also see the Akismet plugin. I leave that deactivated. In the Spam Karma 2 options, under the plugins section, I enter my WordPress API key. That’s it?

How do I know it’s “working”?
sygyzy sagte am Mittwoch, 28. Juni 2006 um 1:55 :

I’ve found what I think might be a bug. If I look in the approve comments section, the latest entry is clearly a SPAM trackback. So I check the box and have it run through Akismet. The red status text says “Submitted to Akismet as ham. Akismet say it’s SPAM.” After it reports that, nothing happens. It still just leaves it in the approved state.

1. How did it get to the approved state in the first place?
2. Barring that, how come after Akismet says it’s spam, it doesn’t get moved to moderated or the spam section?
Sebbi sagte am Mittwoch, 28. Juni 2006 um 13:00 :

sygyzy, yes that’s it. You know it’s working when you hover over the karma points of a comment and you see “Akismet says it’s ok/spam”. Not all comments (those already having a pretty hight negative karma) get send to Akismet for classification, so it may not appear everywhere.

The bug: it’s not a bug, it’s a feature. Running the Akismet check over a comment again only adds/subtracts the karma points of this check (default: 7). This may not be enough to turn the comment into spam. If you want to do that you have to click on “moderate selected”. SK2 automatically moves the marked comments to the spam section and sends a notification to Akismet that it was wrong about the comment.

@1. You can see the reasons for the karma value if you hover (mouse over) over the points.
@2. If other modules of SK2 decided it’s ham and gave the comment enough points, Akismets default -7 points (saying it’s spam) might not be enough. I implemented it this way because Akismet isn’t always the better choise (SK2 alone is very good in the spam fight). If you feel the Akismet check should have more to say, update its strength (general setting) to strong or supastrong :-)
sygyzy sagte am Mittwoch, 28. Juni 2006 um 21:10 :

Sebbi – You are correct on all fronts. I verified it is working. Also, I found out why my spam trackbacks and comments were still marked as valid. They all came from repeat offenders and apparently due to the Snowball Effect (granularity), this awards the commetner with like 500 points. There is nothing in the world that could cancel that out!
Sebbi sagte am Donnerstag, 29. Juni 2006 um 14:59 :

The “Snowball Effect” is indeed a problem if the first spam comment was identified as ham. While it never happened on my blog I imagine deleting hundreds of false-positives wouldn’t be a lot of fun. However the author of SK2 wrote something about bayesian filters and neural nets for the next version in a news update. I’m looking forward to that (in hopes it further hinders those nasty spamers out there) :-)
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Stephen Rider sagte am Dienstag, 25. Juli 2006 um 3:37 :

Hi. I don’t have much to add to the above except… this is awesome.

Thank you so much for the effort. :)
Stephen Rider sagte am Mittwoch, 26. Juli 2006 um 6:13 :

Okay, I do have one small request. Could you please add the line in so the plugin tells us what version it is? I believe you do it by adding a line like this in the variables:

var $plugin_version = 2.1;

Danke!
Sebbi sagte am Mittwoch, 26. Juli 2006 um 9:48 :

Thank you for the request. I modified the plugin that it shows its version.

Lately I discovered an annoying bug: SK2 does not seem to be able to recover or moderate multiple comments at once. I don’t know if my plugin causes this or if it’s a general problem of the newest SK2-release.
Stephen Rider sagte am Montag, 31. Juli 2006 um 20:26 :

The version display doesn’t quite work. Try this:

var $plugin_version = 2.1;
var $show_version = true;

Note that it’s “$plugin_version” not “$version”.

With these two lines in there, the Spam Karma 2 options page will show the version of your plugin, which is awfully handy when we’re checking for updates! :-)

Still awesome. Much cleaner than using a whole separate WP plugin for Akismet. Thanks.
Anonymous sagte am Montag, 31. Juli 2006 um 21:40 :
Sebbi sagte am Montag, 31. Juli 2006 um 22:10 :

Oops, something went wrong with the zipfile (two versions were packed together). I hope that I got it right this time.

Thank you for reporting it … again :-)
cargawar sagte am Mittwoch, 2. August 2006 um 1:53 :

well, let’s give this one a try then…
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Jonathan sagte am Donnerstag, 10. August 2006 um 21:41 :

Been using both for a while, now I can let them work together! Thanks!
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Roger sagte am Freitag, 15. September 2006 um 16:04 :

Where can I get it from?
Sebbi sagte am Freitag, 15. September 2006 um 17:10 :

The link is hidden in the text of the article ;-)
Dave sagte am Mittwoch, 20. September 2006 um 17:46 :

Maybe Im missing something but…
Should I be keeping the WordPress Akismet plugin active at the same time I have Spam Karma (with your plugin) active? Or should the Akismet plugin be de-activated?
Sebbi sagte am Mittwoch, 20. September 2006 um 18:10 :

Hi Dave and thanks for asking!
The original Akismet plugin (shipped with WordPress) is not needed and it should not be activated next to an active Spam Karma installation.

The reason i wrote this SK-plugin was because you can not have multiple cooperating spam plugins in WordPress. This SK-plugin is escentially the original Akismet plugin rewritten to work with Spam Karma, because Spam Karma has an interface for other spam fighting mechanisms.
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Quix0r sagte am Dienstag, 17. Oktober 2006 um 20:24 :

Can you please add the “subscribe to comments” plugin? So you can notify us when you have released an update. :-)
Sebbi sagte am Dienstag, 17. Oktober 2006 um 21:27 :

Hmm … last time I used that plugin nobody but some fake-adresses subscribed to the comments :-) … why don’t you subscribe to the RSS-Feed of the comments instead? You could use http://www.feedblitz.com/ if you want to be updated via mail :-)
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Quix0r sagte am Montag, 6. November 2006 um 17:07 :

Yupp, you are right. :) So I don’t need the “legacy” akismet-plugin anymore when I have installed this version? The “problem” here is: akismet overrules all decisions made by the battery of sk2-plugins. :(

SK2 even is not learning when akismet is enabled. And is it possible to re-add the “Recent Spam Harvest” to the dashboard? (e.g. a link to YOUR_URL/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=spamkarma2&sk2_section=spam
?

Then I just need to check-out the dashboard. :) Btw: If you don’t know the right “hook” to use, try this:

add_action(‘activity_box_end’, ‘sk2_admin_stats’);

Surely you need to code this function (not class method!)

Well, ich komme aus Deutschland, tippe aber lieber in Englisch meine Fragen, damit andere auch was verstehen! ;)
Sebbi sagte am Montag, 6. November 2006 um 17:25 :

Hello Quix0r,

I believe such a function (showing up on the dashboard) should and probably can only be handled by Spam Karma itself. But development of SK has essentially been halted for the last few months … maybe Dr Dave has lost interest in this or he thinks it’s good enough (it really is!!!) for the time being, I don’t know :-)
Quix0r sagte am Dienstag, 7. November 2006 um 14:08 :

Hmmm, I have a “legacy” (WordPress-native) anti-spam plugin here which targets on the POST request URI itself. They are up to 99.9999% like this: “POST /wp-comments-post.php” I asume here you have no sub-folders.

My plugins inserts with a ProtoType (so JavaScript) observer an unique string into it, e.g. “wp-comments-post-xxxxxxxxxx.php”. After the POST request mod_rewrite rewrites it back to “wp-comments-post.php?cpr_code=xxxxxxxxxx by xxxxxxxxxx is “server-unique data”.

Well, this might be a usefull plugin. So is there a tutorial or something where I can start with to code a “binding” to my legacy plugin? So when my plugin runs in SK2-mode it shall not run again in “legacy-mode”…
Sebbi sagte am Dienstag, 7. November 2006 um 15:40 :

I might not really understand what you want to do, but if you are trying to write a “plugin” for Spam Karma, please refer to the documentation (including sample code) shipped with Spam Karma.

Nice idea, btw. I think somebody has already brought that up on the wp-hackers list. Was that you?
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christina joseph sagte am Freitag, 24. November 2006 um 9:14 :

I abandoned Akismet a while ago since this script returns quite alot of false positive for me. Akismet is a decent service but it’s surely hard to prevent data poisoning (I bet that’s on the move right now) and a DoS attack.
Sebbi sagte am Freitag, 24. November 2006 um 14:23 :

Hello christina,

yep … I have disabled the plugin in my installation, too. Akismet was the cause too many spams came through Spam Karmas checks. Sad, but true.

What do you mean by DoS attack? Trough Akismet or against Akismet?
Quix0r sagte am Mittwoch, 29. November 2006 um 14:23 :

@Sebbi: I have written now a “binding” – in truth it is a plug-in but it binds both legacy plug-ins together – for my plug-in. :) Thanks for your help anyway.
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Viper007Bond sagte am Dienstag, 12. Dezember 2006 um 20:31 :

Just thought I’d let you know that from time to time, my API key deletes itself. My guess is that every once in a while, the Akismet servers get an error and falsely reports that my key is invalid. This makes your plugin delete my saved key.

I’ve edited your plugin for my own uses (to make it not remove my key on error), but I still thought I’d let you know. :)
Sebbi sagte am Dienstag, 12. Dezember 2006 um 23:52 :

Thanks for the heads up. I also thought if it would be more elegant to only check the validity of the key when it changed (like the regular Akismet plugin does) and not on every view of the adminpage.

P.S.: my API key deleted itself on the recent DNS outage of Akismet, but never before …
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Ajay sagte am Freitag, 15. Dezember 2006 um 19:36 :

Thanks for the plugin Sebbi. I’ve recommended this to a great number of people :)
david law sagte am Samstag, 16. Dezember 2006 um 6:09 :

I’m not that cool yet to need spam filtering. Most of that stuff comes via my blog that catches it.
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Cappellmeister sagte am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 um 12:47 :

Sebbi ist schuld! Ich wussts schon immer ;-)
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manel sagte am Dienstag, 23. Januar 2007 um 23:05 :

gracias por el plugin
Dave sagte am Mittwoch, 24. Januar 2007 um 13:01 :

Is this plugin going to be updated for the new Akismet 2.0?
Sebbi sagte am Mittwoch, 24. Januar 2007 um 13:04 :

Hello Dave,

there is nothing new about Akismet 2.0 except the interface. The spam-checking feature of Akismet didn’t change in that update.
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Sebbi sagte am Freitag, 15. Januar 2010 um 16:14 :

Evie28 :
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blabla, and I advise you not to spam my blog … thx.
webthesurfi rugs webdesign sagte am Samstag, 27. Februar 2010 um 1:09 :

Akismet plug-in is really a nuce plug in in wordpress…..
learning centre sagte am Donnerstag, 4. März 2010 um 17:01 :

Great plug in! It has met my every need in terms of a spam checker. It has reduced the amount of spam i receive in my other blogs significantly!

I can’t wait for the next update of this plug in. I can only think this can go from strength to strength in its development.

I will certainly be bookmarking this and forwarding it on to friends and co-workers to see about using this plug in when they next think about writing a blog.

Great information and a great post. Thanks for sharing.
Sebbi sagte am Donnerstag, 4. März 2010 um 21:56 :

@learning centre
I’ll let you have your link despite or because the great effort you put in the writing of this comment. I like it, but normally Akismet should catch this kind of spam, so beware ;-)
Jamie sagte am Freitag, 5. März 2010 um 11:55 :

Top work on the new plugins – One of the fundamental flaws initially was how frequently everything was cross-checked with askimet.com – it’s great to see that you have improved this.

Some really good stuff, is it possible to talk more through hotmail or gtalk? add me on Gtalk, you have my email on form.

Cheers

Jamie
learning centre sagte am Freitag, 5. März 2010 um 12:43 :

Thanks Sebbi for allowing my post to stand. My post was never intended as spam as i genuinely do use the Akismet plug-in and was glad to find a blog which was talking about the experiences other users had.

I felt it best to post about my experience using Akismet for other potential users of this plug-in to see.

Thanks again.
Samreen Soomro sagte am Freitag, 5. März 2010 um 12:45 :

This sounds like a great plugin bringing the best of Akismet and Spam Karma 2. Like most wordpress users I’d been using Akismet to filter out spam comments and was thinking of switching to Spam Karma when I came across ur post. Guess what I’m going to install now instead? ;)

Thanks a lot!
hookah sagte am Sonntag, 7. März 2010 um 7:46 :

great plugin. ill install right away. looks like it has lots of potential
seo expert sagte am Montag, 8. März 2010 um 7:00 :

Spam Karma 2 Akismet Plugin is great.I really want to install it thanks for developed these types of plugins…..:)
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Local Swingers sagte am Donnerstag, 25. März 2010 um 20:20 :

Nice comment Jamie – I totally agree with you on that one ..
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