Do you run a site that has a public commentable space? Is keeping comment spam free driving you crazy? I wish I had an answer. That magical solution that as Akismet says would “restore [the] innocence to blogging”. But I have no answers.

The spam is so out of control on my photoblog (pixelpost software) it recieves hundreds of comment spams a day. Just sit and watch the comment list for a few seconds and another wonderful annoyance will arrive. Cleaning out the spam involves mysql database queries that I would take the time and effort to do each time I tried a new comment spam solution that I dreamt would work.

With the Akismet [addon] for pixelpost comment spam became a bit more reasonable. I would take about 20 hits of comment spam a day and I would report each one of those to Akismet. This is still not reasonable though so I installed Anti-Comment-Spam-Addon that places a graphical chunk of numbers the user most enter before the post will get through. I thought that this was the final end to the sad spam, but I was wrong. I am still getting between 5 and 10 comment spams a day. I have no idea how they get posted despite this addon and I am now considering closing off public comments completely as I don’t have the time for the battles. What to do?

Wordpress spam has also seemed to be kicked up a notch lately. I’ve been using and loving Bad Behavior for a long time now but have reciently been getting spam slipping past it as well. Are the comment spammers becoming more advanced or what?

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