How can I disable StopForumSpam spam filter in BlogEngine.NET 2.0

Question

I'm using BlogEngine.NET v2.0.0.44 and I don't want any spam filters enabled as I plan to moderate all comments manually. I successfully disabled AkismetFilter and TypePadFilter by disabling their extensions, however I can not find a way to disable StopFormSpam filter. How can I disable this filter?

Answer 1

After little bit of debugging I found the root cause of this problem. StopForumSpam class seems to be a bit unfinished in this version of BlogEngine (2.0.0.44). You need Extension attribute StopForumSpam class like:

/// <summary>
/// StopForumSpam.com custom comment filter
/// </summary>
[Extension("StopForumSpam.com custom comment filter", "1.0", "<a href=\"http://dotnetblogengine.net\">BlogEngine.NET</a>")]
public class StopForumSpam : ICustomFilter
{

Also Initialize() method needs to look like:

/// <summary>
/// Enables or disables filter
/// </summary>
/// <returns>
/// True of false
/// </returns>
public bool Initialize()
{
    return ExtensionManager.ExtensionEnabled("StopForumSpam");
}

After this changes StopForumSpam extension will appear in the Extensions tab in admin panel where it can be enabled/disabled easily. It's strange that StopForumSpam class did not have this by default since both AksimetFilter and TypePadFilter have this and those classes have pretty much the same functionality.