Kommentare nur in einer Sprache zulassen - Revival? about antispam-bee

[sebastianbrinkmann76]

@Zodiac1978 Not my problem anymore, I start using WP SpamShield and it works well. It's really bad that development of this plugin slowed down so much.

[Zodiac1978]

@sebastianbrinkmann76 I tried to comment to your post about ASB, but your new Plugin hasn't allowed me to do so. Less spam is great. Block out real users is bad, I think. But hey, it is your decision which is the right plugin for you.

There is so much activity on this repo in the last time. Much more than ever before. But it is much more complicated to establish a workflow with a changing team of volunteers. Sergej was a genius one-man-show and it is not easy to fill his footsteps. We need to understand everything he has done in the past and elaborate on that, without any established honeypots/data/whatsoever. This needs time and data which has to be collected. The alternative was to let the plugin go, which would be even worse. Sadly you don't appreciate our unpaid work for the community. But again: it is your decision. Happy blogging.

[swissspidy]

Hey there,

Thanks for creating this issue. We're already tracking this in #29 and #30.

[2ndkauboy]

Hallo Edward,

wir müssten uns mal ansehen, wie genau wir die Funktion einbinden könnten, damit sie ein Nutzer mit eigenem API-Key auf eigene Rechnung einrichten könnte. Ich denke eine solche Lösung sollte sich umsetzen lassen. Es muss dann nur auch gut kommuniziert werden, wie der Nutzer einen solchen API Key erhalten kann. Wenn du dies schon einmal gemacht hast, würde uns eine kurze Anleitung sicher weiterhelfen.

[swissspidy]

Oops, sorry. Mixed those two up.

[swissspidy]

Forcing users to set their own API key is not a great UX. We were thinking of sponsoring the API costs as a company before, but would need to look into it again.

[EdwardBlack]

You don't have to force the user, just give them the option if one thinks the function is usefull and one want to use it (that's the reason I mentioned to put it in a side menu - something like expert settings).

[swissspidy]

"Force" as in you have to get your own API key or it won't work. That's a bad UX.

Again, we were thinking of covering these costs, which would result in a much better UX.

If that doesn't work, I'd suggest putzing this in an add-on plugin.

No need to discuss implementation details before the basis is resolved though.

[sebastianbrinkmann76]

Just a short update: I get some russian and chinese spam during the last days and this feature would solve it. I just checked that version 2.7 wasn't published yet. Could you tell us, WHEN it will be published so that we can use this? I get let's say 10 spam comments per day and these guys aren't using your CSS Hack. :-)

[torbentschechne]

Hello,
there are a lot more spam comments coming through in the past days. I would really like to see this feature - together with #29 in the upcoming version. Especially the possibility to setup the plugin with the user's own API key to the necessary Google services is the right way to go.

[Zodiac1978]

@sebastianbrinkmann76 It is done, when it's done. There is no ETA at the moment.

@Elbsurfer This is not very likely (see the discussion above). At the moment it looks like we will use the approach in #29

[sebastianbrinkmann76]

@Zodiac1978 I really appreciate your unpaid work, but it's difficult to understand that this feature was build out in 2015 and two years after, there were only minor updates and you still cannot tell us, then this feature comes back. "It is done, when it's done" is not the friendly way to answer to a user question. I allready pay for WP Seo and Optimize, but I know that now it's not one man behind all of this anymore.

But, more important: can you tell me, then you tried to comment on my site? This would be the second report from a user that he was blocked and this would be to much, no question. Can you send me an email to that I can check the logs?

[timse201]

If you really need this feature you can help us and test it. Just copy it to your server and tell us if anything goes wrong.

I can understand that spam can be anoying thats why this plugin exists but this is the normal answer you will get when you use open source software.

[Zodiac1978]

I allready pay for WP Seo and Optimize

Which is totally unrelated, because Pluginkollektiv has nothing to do with it and never has.

can you tell me, then you tried to comment on my site?

It think you mean "when": According to my screenshot: 2017-01-17 11.07.35

"It is done, when it's done" is not the friendly way to answer to a user question.

This is not meant offensive or unfriendly. I just don't know. I'm not capable to decide if every code is fine, so I need to wait for the other volunteers to review the code. If someone has the time, it could be tomorrow. If no one has the time it could be weeks from now. I just can't say. This is not a company. It is a open source project of volunteers. I have a blog myself with open comments and I feel the pain too ...