Nuclear Moose has a message for spammers. Personally, I’m just growing bored. The other week I got hit with about 800+ in a matter of a couple hours. About 95% of them were caught by the basic comment moderation that’s built into WP. Not even a challenge. And now the new 1.5 beta I’m running makes it even easier. I now get spam comments the way I used to get spam e-mail – a couple a day. And just as quickly as they appear, they are removed.
Easy enough, but I still concur with Craig.
Since I ‘meta-tagged’ myself out of google and using Elliot B?ck’s great WP plugin I NEVER had any spam problems. Give it a try!
http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2004/12/29/spam-stopgap-extreme-new-version/
Boy, you turn your back on the blogosphere for a minute and what happens?
I stayed away from my feeds during the holidays, so I completely missed your conversion to WP. Way to go! For now, the spam isn’t that big of a deal for me. So I’ve decided to hold off on any plugins until WP1.5 comes out, and then I’ll decide what I want to use.
Well, I made sure on hardly sees any difference – I think the blogging app shouldn’t dictate how the blog looks like. 😉