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NOTE: Worst Offenders for WordPress 2.5 is currently a pre-alpha release for developer feedback only.
If you use any anti-spam tool you will no doubt be delighted that spam can be automatically identified, but less happy that you now have to either trawl through the spam to check for false positives, or just give up and hope for the best – this is where Worst Offenders can help: it analyses messages already marked as spam and uses several techniques to identify messages with common sources, subjects and content – those which are definitely spam. These Worst Offenders can be deleted en-masse, hopefully leaving just a handful of messages that can be checked by hand.
<h3>To do</h3>
Switch to using wp_cache wherever options were used 
Improve count function to remove duplicates

Worst Offenders

NOTE: Worst Offenders for Wordpress 2.5 is currently a pre-alpha release for developer feedback only.

Automattic

Matt Mullenweg

Michael Adams (mdawaffe)

Christopher Finke

Ryan Boren

Andy Skelton

Eoin Gallagher

Joseph Scott

Greg

Tellyworth

Lisa Schuyler

Stephane Daury (stephdau)

kbrownkd (a11n)

bluefuton

Derek Springer

Dave Martin (lessbloat)

Andy Perdomo (a11n)

Anti-Spam

Josh Smith

The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form. The most trusted antispam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce.
Akismet checks your comments and contact form submissions against our global database of spam to prevent your site from publishing malicious content. You can review the comment spam it catches on your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.
Major features in Akismet include:
<ul>
<li>Automatically checks all comments and filters out the ones that look like spam.</li>
<li>Each comment has a status history, so you can easily see which comments were caught or cleared by Akismet and which were spammed or unspammed by a moderator.</li>
<li>URLs are shown in the comment body to reveal hidden or misleading links.</li>
<li>Moderators can see the number of approved comments for each user.</li>
<li>A discard feature that outright blocks the worst spam, saving you disk space and speeding up your site.</li>
</ul>
PS: You’ll be prompted to get an Akismet.com API key to use it, once activated. Keys are free for personal blogs; paid subscriptions are available for businesses and commercial sites.

Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection

Nice

Great Plugin

Does the job

It's really good


There are many better ways to handle spam than this garbage. Indeed i with the false positive rate this plugin has it is worse than nothing


Worst antispam plugin


Akismet has been with me since I've been on WordPress and really doesn't miss when compared to other solutions. Keep up the great work!


Doesn't miss a shot


Works very well for basic users so they do not have to buy a paid one just to protect a small site.


Works very well for basic users

The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form. The most trusted antispam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce.

Worst Offenders vs Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection