“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)
