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[{"user_id": 11405, "stars": [], "topic_id": 16026, "date_created": 1301406557.7350399, "message": "Does anyone know about a good (maybe even free?) alternative (good as in: good API, easy to integrate into django) to Akismet? I think their prices are absurd and a pure rip-off. Adding a captcha would not be preferred since that will only annoy the user..", "group_id": 81, "id": 469417}, {"user_id": 5108, "stars": [{"date_created": 1301818222.6221581, "user_id": 23707}], "topic_id": 16026, "date_created": 1301407095.8367131, "message": "have you looked at typepad antispam? http://antispam.typepad.com/ \u2013 haven't used it for a while but it used to be a free alternative to akismet", "group_id": 81, "id": 469468}, {"user_id": 13496, "stars": [], "topic_id": 16026, "date_created": 1301409140.7418909, "message": "Just remember that Akismet uses the \"hive mind\" to build its spam db. It's so incredibly effective because more than 10% of the internet now runs on WordPress, so there are literally millions of people out there identifying spam signatures. A free or cheaper alternative would have to be very very popular to become as effective as Akismet.", "group_id": 81, "id": 469663}, {"user_id": 13496, "stars": [], "topic_id": 16026, "date_created": 1301409176.1769321, "message": "Also, you can still get a free Akismet key by creating a username (not a blog) at wordpress.com - you don't strictly need to buy a license through akismet.com.", "group_id": 81, "id": 469666}, {"user_id": 1736, "stars": [], "topic_id": 16026, "date_created": 1301416468.03528, "message": "If you need something standalone, SpamBayes is both one of the granddaddy spam filters and has a decent Python API.", "group_id": 81, "id": 470644}, {"user_id": 6807, "stars": [{"date_created": 1301818249.597481, "user_id": 23707}], "topic_id": 16026, "date_created": 1301466294.7914219, "message": "You could check out http://mollom.com/ which is from the guy behind drupal.", "group_id": 81, "id": 478713}, {"user_id": 11405, "stars": [], "topic_id": 16026, "date_created": 1301550840.645283, "message": "hmm seems as if all spam services are at the same crazy price range...", "group_id": 81, "id": 488976}, {"user_id": 11405, "stars": [{"date_created": 1301551900.5043571, "user_id": 141}], "topic_id": 16026, "date_created": 1301550949.086369, "message": "TypePad looks promising... I wonder why there are free and claim to be better than Akismet, having even the same API...", "group_id": 81, "id": 488993}, {"user_id": 1822, "stars": [{"date_created": 1301577024.2349839, "user_id": 5778}, {"date_created": 1301639039.1276741, "user_id": 11405}], "topic_id": 16026, "date_created": 1301568600.9635639, "message": "Crazy and clunky idea: route the form contents through a gmail account. Won't be instantaneous, but their spam algorithm is good and free.", "group_id": 81, "id": 490681}, {"user_id": 11405, "stars": [], "topic_id": 16026, "date_created": 1301639055.329664, "message": "Both ideas are really cool :)", "group_id": 81, "id": 499783}, {"user_id": 1822, "stars": [{"date_created": 1301720587.2706871, "user_id": 544}, {"date_created": 1301880682.2414789, "user_id": 14070}], "topic_id": 16026, "date_created": 1301645483.604497, "message": "@jeffrey maybe that target can just render an explanation to those few with js turned off about why/how they got there", "group_id": 81, "id": 500088}, {"user_id": 11405, "stars": [], "topic_id": 16026, "date_created": 1301667206.4955461, "message": "but isn't that spam industry a multi-million dollar industry? These guys must know how to write bots that can process javascript on page load. Even *I* know how to do it...", "group_id": 81, "id": 501589}, {"user_id": 18417, "stars": [{"date_created": 1301690274.890908, "user_id": 141}], "topic_id": 16026, "date_created": 1301685216.2233651, "message": "They could process scripting, but most of the time they focus on the low hanging fruit and don't. I filter out most of my spam by adding an extra field that's hidden by CSS. If that field is submitted with a value, I just show the user or bot the normal response page without actually processing the form.", "group_id": 81, "id": 504716}, {"user_id": 15977, "stars": [{"date_created": 1301709940.904669, "user_id": 5778}, {"date_created": 1301729002.631618, "user_id": 1736}], "topic_id": 16026, "date_created": 1301706801.199369, "message": "I added the following features to contact form to prevent spam: the post of the form must be from the same ip address as the get, the form contains a unique id that must be posted back (posted id must be valid and only submitted once), post and get must be within an hour and less than a few seconds apart, honeypot hidden form field that must not have any value in it. That wasn't enough, I still got spam.", "group_id": 81, "id": 507091}, {"user_id": 4918, "stars": [{"date_created": 1301901180.618891, "user_id": 1}, {"date_created": 1301908866.0182071, "user_id": 22943}, {"date_created": 1301916139.3185539, "user_id": 5778}], "topic_id": 16026, "date_created": 1301900783.4726369, "message": "Much more interesting option: Look at Cloudflare (www.cloudflare.com). They're a wicked clever proxying service, one of whose features is to challenge spammy behaviour. Totally free, interesting CDN services, and utterly fascinating.", "group_id": 81, "id": 521254}, {"user_id": 17897, "stars": [{"date_created": 1301916168.20257, "user_id": 5778}], "topic_id": 16026, "date_created": 1301909367.847085, "message": "a friend added a dummy form that was hidden using CSS. Pointing to a view that collects data like ip and subsequently blocked those IP for a while. That form was the first form in the HTML. A lot of the bots picked up that form and left the real one alone. Mind you that was a couple of years.", "group_id": 81, "id": 521950}, {"user_id": 22943, "stars": [], "topic_id": 16026, "date_created": 1301908859.0179181, "message": "@rodbegbie seems really interesting !!", "group_id": 81, "id": 521901}]