I'll put Comment Spam Pack on the list for updating as soon as possible!

Thanks for the feedback!

We try hard to make useful plugins that help out everyone, any feature requests or comments are always considered in development. We do wish we had more time to to code in additions. We'd be glad to hear any of your specific recommendations if you'd like to create a new post with Feedback :)

Any chance this is going to be updated? The "Usage" tab for the plugin is worthless and the plugin really hasn't been updated. I'd suggest you remove it or at least update the page to reflect the current state of the plugin with correct instructions.
Spam is huge issue for blogs and not having a viable solution is a big hole in your suite of products. I love you guys but I'm finding more and more that it looks like you are interested in quantity and not quality. I'd pay the yearly fee gladly for 5-10 ROCK SOLID plugins that I couldn't live without. Instead, I'm starting to look for alternatives becuase some of the plugins (Spam, Ecomm) are mediocre solutions and there are better alternatives out there.

Sorry to rant but you guys need to get on the ball with some of these.

Thanks for the info nickd32. I was going to download this plugin, but it does not seem to be too viable. I have just downloaded the one you suggested, seems very simple and nothing users have to worry about.

Greetings nickd32,

Thank you for letting us know, it is greatly appreciated.

Cheers, Joe

FYI... we have abandoned this plugin entirely in favor of a much simpler one called "Anti-Spam"
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/anti-spam/

No options to configure, and it uses Javascript... therefore no errors with caching either.

Simple. Easy. Effective. Done.

I'll chime in here... Assira is inappropriate for multisite users for many reasons. For one, it does look 'spammy' and unprofessional. More importantly, it is geared toward sighted users - even those with some level of vision impairment could have a problem with this, as the images are so small that sometimes it's hard to tell whether it's a cat or a dog.

I may be in a slightly different situation than many of you. Being at an educational institution, we must ensure our sites are as accessible as possible.

ReCaptcha does try to work for more users, with audio options and whatnot, but I think most of us agree that there are still issues with it and that it can frustrate our legitimate commenters. The compact version seems to strip out the accessible alternatives, so that's not an option, and I've found that it simply doesn't load on all of the themes on our network, and will simply reject the comments even though ReCaptcha never loaded in the first place.

Greetings nickd32,

I am taking the appropriate and applicable action of moving this ticket to the feature requests area since it certainly meets the criteria.

This way it will put it onto the radar of the developers for possible inclusion of something else.

Cheers, Joe

Greetings nickd32,

Just chiming in to keep this ticket from falling into the ticket system abyss.

I find your statement hilarious

Asirra has not shown to be a good replacement for ReCaptcha, as it is confusing for many (shall we say... "less technical") users.

Which further proves my statement I made some months ago that some people should not be allowed to own a computer not limited to but including any of these people: http://freegiftsgiveaway.com/humor/leno_dealing_with_the_public.htm

Just having some fun .... lol

Cheers, Joe

Hello Nick,

Apologies for the delay in response on this thread. For some reasons I did not get notified by the email.

I have sent another note to our lead developer to have him provide a comment on this one.

Cheers
PC

Hi,

Actually this has not been resolved. Asirra has not shown to be a good replacement for ReCaptcha, as it is confusing for many (shall we say... "less technical") users.

My users are still getting bombarded with spam daily. :(

I just saw this in my email -- perhaps the plugin isn't working??

An error has been detected
Error: http_request_failed - connect() timed out!

IP: 78.3.5.118
Accessing: /wp-comments-post.php
Call took: 5.0057151317596

Hiya @Atlanta

I hope the latest version of the Easy Blogging sorted out the problem with the logo.

I will go ahead and resolve this topic, however, if you still need assistance from us, please don't hesitate to re-open this.

Have a great day!

Gina

Greetings Sean Johnson,

It appears this particular topic is now resolved/closed, if you need any further assistance please let us know.

If it wasn't resolved, or you have any more questions related to this thread, please feel free to post them below including any new symptoms or errors and tick the 'Mark as Not Resolved (re-open)' box below the post area (or else we'll miss it!)

Thank you for being a WPMU Dev member!

Cheers, Joe :-)

Thank you @VeBailovity!

@Atlanta

Please let me know if the latest version of the Easy Blogging plugin managed to resolve the issue.

Have a good day and look forward to receive your feedback.

Gina

Hello,

Just a quick update, the fix for this issue (as well as some other fixes and improvements) should be in the latest plugin release (v3.2.2, just released).

Greetings Everyone,

After reviewing this ticket I am totally lost who has issues and who doesn't.

Therefore if you are still having issues I respectfully request that you open a new ticket and copy and paste those items from this ticket into your new ticket that specifically apply to you.

Thank you for your understanding and I look forward to helping to get these resolved.

Thank you all for being WPMU Dev Community Members!

Cheers, Joe

Hi!

Just checking in :)

I'm guessing that because we haven't heard back from you that you've got your issue worked out or that we have reached the end of our convo here. If you are still having problems or need any other answers on this particular topic please feel free to come back to this thread at anytime. Just be sure to mark it Not Resolved so we don't miss it!

This ticket is only being Resolved due to lack of activity. It is by no means an action to avoid, brush off or minimize your issue. We are ready and here if you want to re-open at any time and I apologize in advance for any lack of communication if this ticket is being closed in error.

Thanks for using the WPMU Community!

Best,
Kimberly

I can confirm :)

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Hi @Atlanta

I'm bumping into you a lot lately :)

Just checking in to say that we haven' forgotten about you. The Developer @VeBailovity will be in here shortly to provide his feedback based on your latest update to us.

Have a great day ahead.

Gina

Heya Everyone,

Please accept my apologies about not letting you know about the latest release. As soon as Ve fixed it, it was launched and the thread just skipped from my eyes.... I think I am getting weaker :D

Cheers
PC

Thank you for this fix, all bugs seem to be resolved for me.
Cheers

Recent Infinte SEO plugin update fixed this issue for me.

Heya, just checking in to see how are things going on this one ?

Cheers
PC

Thanks again Mark. Yes, I think you just persuaded me to pursue organizing and extending WP comments instead of duplicating it. Thank-you!

Hi @Atlanta

Just checking in here on behalf of Support Folks :)

Thank you for your latest feedback. I will ping the Developer to see if he has any suggestions.

Talk soon.

Gina

Hmm.. it sounds like your underlying objective is to distinguish the two groups so that one group is clearly the vetted/validated/approved group who can be counted on to give the expert factual advice or whatever.

In that case, the easy-cheesy way is what you said: highlighting or labeling the registered users in the comments section. That can be done in a number of ways, none of which unfortunately I can think of on the top of my head. You may want to start a separate thread with that objective in the title and see what kind of nibbles you get.

One advantage to having them in the same box is that you get to see the interaction and the "fact-givers" correcting the "opinion-givers" (or vice-versa!).

Mark

Mark and PC, Thanks for the responses.

Do you want it so that only the public can write comments, not registered users? Or will registered users be able to both read and write comments here if they wish?
Do you want it so that only registered users can write and read comments? Or can the public read the comments too?

Basically, anyone should be able to leave a comment - in my specific application I would label this as the opinion section. Registration will not be open, only approved writers will be given a contributor role in WP. These contributors will have special access to publish to an additional comments section called facts, these will be published for all to see - and by internal policy must contain a source validating their fact.

What's the user experience look like? When a person leaves a comment, is he or she instructed to select a category (or insert tags)? And then what - site visitors can select a category (or tag) on the page and view only those comments while still remaining on the page?

If two separate commenting systems are not practical, I was thinking there may be an easier way to denote the difference between a registered contributor's comment and an unregistered users comment. That way I could separate them visually in my theme...

I hope that brings some clarity so you can better help me. Once again, thank you very much!

Hi Sean,

A few clarification questions..

Public Comment Box
Do you want it so that only the public can write comments, not registered users? Or will registered users be able to both read and write comments here if they wish?

Private Comment Box
Do you want it so that only registered users can write and read comments? Or can the public read the comments too?

I'm wondering if Membership couldn't help you achieve that if you can find a way to add an additional comment in your template or even in the post. (For example, using a plug-in which could create a comment box in the post, and then hiding that area with shortcodes.)

Another approach might be to add custom fields to your comment area which only registered users can use and view. Don't know if that functionality exists.

Finally, you mentioned a separate objective altogether:

Comment categorization
What's the user experience look like? When a person leaves a comment, is he or she instructed to select a category (or insert tags)? And then what - site visitors can select a category (or tag) on the page and view only those comments while still remaining on the page?

Hope we can find something for you..

Best regards,

Mark

Hello kenlyle,

We haven't heard on this one from you for quite sometime now. If you are still experiencing issues, please feel free to re-open this thread and we would be around.

Cheers
PC

Heya Everyone,

We have made progress on this issue and its just being tested for consistency. I would post soon regarding the same.

Cheers
PC

Hello Sean,

I did a quick search but could not find a plugin which can be used to easily do that. It might require custom coding to help achieve that.

I am going to wait on this thread so that we can have a few more comments from the fellow members and see how we go from there.

I would however keep on looking for something which can help us provide some suggestions on this one.

Have a blessed day.

Cheers
PC