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Did you have auto-aprove comments? AA is a spammers heaven, and they will walk the extra mile if they find that kind of a CMS. Even if you have no-follow links. Very nice initiative for the spam-fight though. How high is your success rate? Do you use any blueprints for spun comments?

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I'm not sure what you mean by "auto-approve" - There are plugins for things like wordpress which will junk comments automatically, solely on the result of the test, but others are more fine-grained. (The API does allow whitelisting/blacklisting by IP, etc.)

The success rate is pretty fluid but about 80% of comments submitted were judged to be spam today. Whether there are too many false negatives/positives is hard for me to say ..

Auto-approve - comments in blog show up immediately without moderation or approval.

Good luck with fighting spam. There are never enough of you!

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