It seems today that any open channel of communication quickly becomes a channel for spam, including blogs. Technorati recently claimed that 70% of blog pings are actually spam, and I suspect an equally high percentage of blog comments are as well, judging from what I see on my blog.
WordPress provides a moderation queue and flagging of link-intensive comments to help manage spam. But the best tool is the Akismet plugin, which automatically flags spam according to a large, user-trained database. It’s caught all the spam comments recieved since installed, and conveniently deletes them after 15 days.
del.icio.us/mbotos
August 10th, 2006 at 8:12 am
Well, I’ve been getting blog spam every day for the last week, so your post couldn’t have been more timely. I’ve got Akismet enabled now, so we’ll see if it’s all you claim it is. (Pressure is on.)