Quick update to my approach to controlling blog spam… I wrote previously about some of the steps I had taken to reduce spam, but those steps turned out to be too leaky. Thus, I ended up settling on a combination of Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam, which is a simple captcha that works really, really well and [...]

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been experimenting with different methods for cutting down on comment spam on both FiveCentNickel and Raising4Boys. This all started when I upgraded to WordPress 2.1. In the past, I’ve used SpamKarma 2 and had great luck with it. But as it turns out, things have been rearranged a [...]