Here’s a Spam Karma 2 Plugin that takes advantage of the Akismet comment spam service.
It still uses the API key (it must in order to access the service) so you will still need a WordPress.com account to use it.
It uses the karma level of a comment to determine whether that comment should be forwarded on to Akismet for analysis. I wonder what kind of impact this will have on the service’s ability to track spam generally, since really spammy comments would be preemptively blocked and would not be forwarded to comprise Akismet’s database of spam. Likewise, valid comments would also not comprise Akismet’s not-spam database.
I wonder if people who need to select a plugin would choose Spam Karma with Akismet over just Akismet. There is an advantage to not having to set all sorts of options to get working spam prevention on your blog.
I think this new “plugin plugin” will serve well the folks who have had SK2 installed all along, but want the added benefit of the spam-preventing hive mind.
