I seen one of my November entries was getting multiple hits, and I was afraid it was going to be the next target for the spammers haunting my site, so I installed Comment Timeout. After 30 days, no one can comment on my entries. I also installed Three Strikes. I’m just that sick of the spammers around here. Every time I would log into my site I’d see that I had comments, and I’d be all excited that real people cared about what I had to say, only to see that it was just spam for Viagra or something equally stupid.
When I was in the hospital last month, this site accumulated 74+ pieces of spam. I think it was all in my (now defunct) Guest Book, but it’s the idea that I can’t even be away from my site for more than 24 hours without the spam building up. I’d rather get the hits for people who actually want to read what I have to say than some spammer coming here trying to sell something.
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I see you’ve wordpress. I face the same problem but I tackle it well with Comment Moderation and Comment Blacklist options provided by wordpress (admin panel>options>discussions). I just study the pattern of the spam messages and blacklist certain words, ips and also any comment containing more that 1 url is held for moderation.
Good luck with your fight!
Nice blog, btw.