You know what would be a really cool name for a blog about comment spam? Yup, Iamspeechless.com (or the other four-word variation Thismakesmespeechless.com). I get dozens of these comment spams a week with just those three words and a bunch of irrelevant links.
# Nogz Blogz :: Comment Spam as a popularity index. :: December :: 2005 on December 4th, 2005
[...] I was just reading Tim Yang’s latest post on Comment Spam. I was thinking that i never get comment spam, so would it be possible to use comment spam as a popularity factor? Blog-comment-spam-shares, BLogcommentspamindex etc….. Comments » [...]
# Mark Woodman on December 5th, 2005
Tim,
I’ve been using the BotCheck plugin for WordPress. I have yet to get a spam comment in the past year. Might be worth checking out.
Regards,
Mark Woodman
# Tim on December 5th, 2005
Mark thanks for the link!
Right now I am using akismet.com to moderate comment spam. It’s caught everything. I like the idea of akismet because it has a centralised catchment system so that it isn’t my job to keep up with new techniques in avoiding systems like akismet. Matt Mullenwegg, the creator of akismet, does it for me.