When I originally started this blog, I required users to register in order to comment. However, there seemed to be a bug in WordPress that caused the registration function to fail for some people. Rather than track the problem down, I just switched to running everything in pre-mod mode.
Unfortunately, the level of comment spam has grown to the point that using pre-mod alone has become a serious pain in the ass. So I’m going to go ahead and turn registration back on. If you have a problem registering, drop me an email through the contact form and we’ll try and track down the problem and get it fixed.
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I was having the same problem too, I eventually gave in and went with Akismet and bad behavior. I’ve been getting hit with hundreds of spam messages over the past few days and Akismet does an excellent job catching them. I hate that it “phones home” but it really does work. It occasionally and very rarely catches a legit comment but all in all I’m happy I made the switch. The only thing that sucks is technorati can’t get in and if someone changed their useragent to googlebot bad behavior knocks them out. I did it to myself a few times.
You might want to check out Spam Karma 2. I am running it on a bunch of WP blogs and it nips all but about 0.1% of the spam in the bud.
Yep…I’d second akismet…has saved a ton of premod which was piling up to several dozen blog spams per day, and turning into a real PITA. It’s a nice easy setup, and real glad I did.
I too was getting dozens of spam comments a day. While I have comment moderation turned on, there’s something offensive about finding spam in the moderation queue — and I don’t want to see it flagged as spam; I don’t want to see it at all.
So we reworked some code I found at the WordPress forums that blocks comments containing spam words in the author, URL, and comment fields from being posted at all. It’s gone from dozens a day to a few a week … and all those do is give me more to add to the list.
The reworked code is simple, and is posted at my developedtraffic.com blog (see the “WordPress Spam Blocker” link in the menu).
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