It seems that I have become the target of comment spammers. In fact, in the past three days I have received over 180 spam comments. Most of these are getting caught by my spam blocker Akismet but a few are sneaking through. Unfortunately, even though I can delete the comments, once a comment gets through it seems to increase the rate that they turn up.

To attempt to reduce and control this shit from turning up on my blog, I am switching to moderated comments, at least until the spam flood stops. Hopefully this won’t affect too many people.

If anyone knows some relatively foolproof methods to stop spam on Wordpress blogs, I’d love to hear about it.