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LifestreamIt would seem that the combination of spam protection plugins that I had installed created false positives in the spam ranking code. Don’t know how long this has been going on or how many comments have been shredded. Really sorry about that.
Disabled:
- NP_Akismet (seems to be the culprit)
- NP_MultiRBL (seems redundant)
This means that the site is relying on NP_Captcha, just as before, but that there are no additional checks being performed (and there shouldn’t have to be since Captchas is so invasive).
So stupid of me to leave all those plugins running in the first place but in my defense I was fiddling with the settings, trying to call NP_Captcha conditionally upon detection of suspected spam comments. Never got it work as the spam bots got through anyway and so I just made NP_Captcha permanent but didn’t disable the other redundant plugins.
KittenAuth … ? Spamguardian … ? Silly.
Ironically, the contact form over at Silent Nation also had problems. Namely a recipient address that was rejected. Yeah, that was sloppy config as well.
