Why I quit using bbAntispam
If you are a WordPress user, then you probably have experienced the situation where you get a notification via e-mail about a “new user registration”. That’s all fine and dandy, but you come to find out that the user has a funny name like “promoeriierow”. A red flag rises. You know that no sane person would name themselves “promoeriirow”. You then realize it’s spam.
“How in the world can I be getting spam registrations?” you ask yourself. I have asked myself that question more than once. I still haven’t figured out a complete answer, other than base WordPress doesn’t have a CAPTCHA or any other “Are you a human?” test. So, in all desperation to end this trend, I found a solution – bbAntispam.
It worked! And it worked rather well. It worked until I tried to post to my blog remotely via Windows Live Writer or Scribefire in Firefox. For a solid two hours I tried to fix the problem with my software, then with my blog. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks – Oh noes! I installed bbAntispam!
I went back to the forum to see if there was a workaround for this bug. To my dismay, there wasn’t one readily available. Since I primarily post remotely, I decided this ability was more important than trying to stop spam registrations. Since I have new users set to “subscriber” anyway, it’s not as big a deal. I uninstalled (i.e. deleted the files) bbAntispam.
If any of you avid readers out there (hehe) have any fixes, workarounds, or new plugins to stop spam registrations, please leave a comment, send me an e-mail, etc. I would really like to know how to fix it.
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