Even though WP Comment Auth seems to work, I still end up having to “moderate” WordPress comment spam. The Three Strikes plugin works like SpamAssassin to automatically reject comments that score above a certain threshold. I applied couple of hacks noted by others to send notification when a comment is blocked, and also to display the comment before it’s rejected, in case it is in fact legit. Here’s my version of the plugin.




October 29th, 2004 at 1:14 pm
If that is your code, then it won’t track the IP because you’ve made the same mistake as me - the mail should send $user_ip, not $userip.
I like to think my additions that give a clickable search of the WHOIS registries to reverse the IP to find the network it came from are useful.. find them at the TSPlugin comments.