I have been getting a lot of spam comments on this blog recently. When I logged in today, I had 11 comments waiting to be moderated. And all of them were spam. Interesting!
This means either my blog is getting very popular, and the spammers think I am mentally challenged to approve their comments. Or that there are enough mentally challenged bloggers around who allow unmoderated comments or proudly display a free-ftp-hosting comment on their blog.
On the other hand, I am impressed by the software they use. Evidently they are keeping a close track of blogosphere and letting their bots hit all the new blogs they discover. May be it is not really about visible comments after all. When you post a spam comment, the blogger himself may come to your website to see who you are. Any publicity is good publicity after all!
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We faced the same problem with our company blog. Its very wordpress specific. We solved it by plugging in a CAPTCHA plugin for commenting. There are some modules available for wordpress, online.
Why dont you use Spam Karma, Its a very intelligent plugin to control spam for wordpress.
Dude, I’m up to 1162 spam comments a day…not as fun as I thought it’d be, at all!
Later,
Sujeet