Are you running (at least!) Akismet? Bad Behavior?
You’re definitely doing it the hard way, gammablog!
Get, and enable, either Akismet or Spam Karma 2 plugins. Then get the Bad Behavior plugin (it works great with either of those).
The amount of crap that gets through will drop dramatically.
No, I’ll check that out, but my moderation list is catching about 95% of them. I’m just wondering if others have noticed a marked increase in the past week, like I have. What is the likelyhood that these plugins will reject legitimate comments without me even knowing they were made?
I’ve noticed a marked increase pretty much every week for the last several years.
What is the likelyhood that these plugins will reject legitimate comments without me even knowing they were made?
Slim. Akismet drops ’em into a moderation area. SK2 has similar options as I recall.
And most of what you’re seeing is actually “Trackback” spam. Bad Behavior is great at killing that stuff.
Oh – and just to be clear, when I said
I’ve noticed a marked increase pretty much every week for the last several years.
I was not being glib.
It’s really rather sad how the spammers have “flocked” to the blogosphere. 🙁
