Fighting Spam Comments

One of the best things about WordPress is its ability to fight spam comments with any number of plugs. For some reason I had a huge jump in spam attacks recently. Check out this graph.

I think it was because I was not posting on a regular basis. I use the Akismet plugin and a plugin called Anti-Captcha. Captcha annoys most people including me. Anti-Captcha does the same thing as Captcha but you don’t have to enter the letters and text when you post a comment. Pretty slick concept. You can read more on it at http://blog.fili.nl/articles/the-anti-captcha-challenge/.

Those two plugins alone catch 99.99999% of spam attempts for me. Only thing that gets through are ping backs once in a while.