Spam-b-gone
Ever since I upgraded to WordPress 2.0, I’ve switched strategies for handling spam on this blog. Before, I used a CAPTCHA, which I hated and tended to create problems for those who wished to comment—sight-impaired or not. Now, with 2.0, I’m using Akismet, which is a central clearing-house for spam prevention. To quote their website:
When a new comment, trackback, or pingback comes to your blog it is submitted to the Akismet web service which runs hundreds of tests on the comment and returns a thumbs up or thumbs down.
I assume one of the things it does is look for identical comments on multiple blogs. That can probably catch 80% of spam. The sad thing is that every day I have dozens of spam that it has caught. Before, they wouldn’t get to that point, but now I get to see the junk. Interesting, if pathetic.
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