A few weeks ago (right after our honeymoon maybe?). the first comment spam was received on Bonnie’s blog. It didn’t really affect me, all I did was transfer my WordPress plugins directory over to her plugins directory and then activated Kitten’s Friendly Comments, Kitten’s Spam Words, and Dougal’s Spammer Tar Pit. There have been a few similar spams since, but none have made it through the schemes in place to protect the blog. Tonight, her blog was bombarded with no less than 42 comment spams in 3 minutes. How many of those made it through and were posted? None.
I do consider it a *slight* nuisance to have to deal with deleting comments, but it’s so easy with WordPress, I’ve just considered it part of my daily routine. Heck, if I wanted I could wait a week and still only use three clicks.
Amen! I haven’t installed any of the plugins you mentioned on my blogs yet (am looking into them though), but I have to say WordPress’ not actually posting a comment until I approve it is a Godsend. Before I found out about WP from you (thank you again btw) it was an extreme hassle deleting comment spam in MT. I actually added a fourth WP install last night for a guestbook and if I can ever get it working (having some trouble) I wanna try out pictoralis and possibly move my gallery onto a WP install.