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supportHi, While the plugin works pretty smooth and I’m really impressed with it, my biggest concern is what’s going to happen if I’ll release it in production and my spam folder will be full. Yes, I know about Zero spam, but I had an extremely bad experience with it when the spammers figured out how to fool it. I thought their 2.0 version will be better but it is even worse and as I can see in their support page people started to complain more often that the spam is going through. It seems like spammers already figured out how to bypass it. While captcha is not suitable for this at all because will irritate and discourage people to post comments, are you guys working/planning to have an elegant solution for this? Thanks https://wordpress.org/plugins/epoch/
Hi Patrick, I use Epoch, and have zero (to very little) spam with a combination of Anti-Spam and Topsy Trackback Validator. The Anti-Spam plugin adds an “invisible checkbox” that humans don’t see, and deters bots. Topsy confirms the email and IP match. They’re very effective. https://wordpress.org/plugins/anti-spam/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-trackback-validation-with-topsy-blocker/
Hi, I’ve just heard about Epoch on WP Tavern and seems to be a great solution for commenting. @patrick , It’s been a couple of months since I am using GoodbyeCaptcha ( https://wordpress.org/plugins/goodbye-captcha/ ) as an antispam solution. The author of Mailchimp plugin recommended it to me. I am using it for protecting Ultimate Member and Mailchimp subscriptions forms. Nothing, nothing goes through! I am going to ask the author if it is compatible with Epoch. That will be awesome!
Hi, Just wanted to let you know that the author of GoodBye Captcha replied back that he’s testing Epoch to find out if there are any incompatibilities. You can see the thread here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-it-work-with-epoch-plugin?replies=2 Hopefully there will be no problems. D
Having looked at the core code, it looks like this works with Akismet pretty well.
@dnlac , Excellent suggestion! 2 weeks have passed since I’ve put Epoch in production and having Goodbyecaptcha taking care of spam. No spam at all since! I checked the reported blocked IP addresses and all of them are known as spammers. Great job guys! I really like Epoch!
Hi Patrick, I use Epoch, and have zero (to very little) spam with a combination of Anti-Spam and Topsy Trackback Validator. The Anti-Spam plugin adds an “invisible checkbox” that humans don’t see, and deters bots. Topsy confirms the email and IP match. They’re very effective. https://wordpress.org/plugins/anti-spam/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-trackback-validation-with-topsy-blocker/
Hi, I’ve just heard about Epoch on WP Tavern and seems to be a great solution for commenting. @patrick , It’s been a couple of months since I am using GoodbyeCaptcha ( https://wordpress.org/plugins/goodbye-captcha/ ) as an antispam solution. The author of Mailchimp plugin recommended it to me. I am using it for protecting Ultimate Member and Mailchimp subscriptions forms. Nothing, nothing goes through! I am going to ask the author if it is compatible with Epoch. That will be awesome!
Hi, Just wanted to let you know that the author of GoodBye Captcha replied back that he’s testing Epoch to find out if there are any incompatibilities. You can see the thread here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-it-work-with-epoch-plugin?replies=2 Hopefully there will be no problems. D
Having looked at the core code, it looks like this works with Akismet pretty well.
@dnlac , Excellent suggestion! 2 weeks have passed since I’ve put Epoch in production and having Goodbyecaptcha taking care of spam. No spam at all since! I checked the reported blocked IP addresses and all of them are known as spammers. Great job guys! I really like Epoch!