“But I don’t even like spam.”
Ah - they joys of spam….
When I ran MovableType the comment spam was rampant - when I installed MTBlacklist (and auto-updated the blacklist) it was a bit better. MT was a bit of a monoculture - most people ran it - so it became a worthwhile target for spammers.
Then I moved to WordPress - and for two months not a single spam. A couple of days ago it started again - and this morning there were three new spam comments. I’ll take that as an indicator of the success of WordPress as a blogging solution.
I’m afraid that I’ve made it so that comments must be authorised by me - and I’m looking at using the WordPress Blacklist.
(Incidentally - Poker seems to be the new Viagra as far as spam goes.)
{Edit - }
I’ve had a go with some plug-ins for WordPress - and comments now will not appear until I have moderated them as OK.
Also - here is the source for a file I just hacked to generated an RSS feed for unmoderated comments - just put it in your WordPress Root (and get rid of the .txt extension)
http://www.diggory.net/grazing/wp-unmoderatedcommentsrss2.php.txt (This is for WP version 1.2)
