After asking Nathan what he uses for spam blocking he surprised me with the answer of “nothing”. It turns out he uses the built in WP2 function “Comment author must have a previously approved comment”. I turned this on Sunday so those few spams that pass Akismet would just stop in moderation and the few commenters that don’t have already approved comments would have to wait a couple hours before I approve them. Well it turns out that the built in feature doesn’t work too well because every time Nathan comments I have to approve it and I think Martha’s comments are doing the same.
I’m just stuck, I don’t like having to delete the few comments that stray by Akismet and it’s also annoying to approve comments from people that have been here plenty of times before. And before Jared says SK2, I can’t use it with my K2 base, something to do with the AJAX commenting. I wonder if there is another solution or somehow reset what WP2 looks up for approved authors so it fixes itself.
