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Posted by jamesakadamingo on November 20, 2010 under 
A Spam Pizza
Spam has become a global industry that comes in many forms, no longer is it restricted to junk emails. Every morning I find another set of spam comments waiting for me on this blog, most are easy to spot others can sometimes look like real messages until you check the links.
If it weren’t for the Akismet spam blocker plugging the job would be a lot harder. Akismet comes as a standard plugin with new WordPress installations but is disabled by default. When I come across a WP blog filled with spam comments I find it hard to understand why the author/web-master hasn’t enabled Akismet to remove all the emails touting pills of various types.
Akismet checks over each comment you receive and compares it to its gigantic library of spam (at the time of posting this was over 19 million spams). If it thinks that it might be spam it marks it as such and waits for you to make a decision. So far I have yet to see a false positive (ham marked as spam so to speak), nor have I had a single spam email get passed into my blog.
The best bit is this gigantic spam comparing service is available free for personal use. So for spam fighting on autopilot (their words not mine!) take a look at the default akismet plugin, and get it enabled!!
Thank you to freezelight for releasing the picture used in this post under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 licence, more of freezelight’s work can be found on Flickr here.
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Howdy, i read your blog from time to time and i own a similar one and i was just curious if you get a lot of spam comments? If so how do you prevent it, any plugin or anything you can suggest? I get so much lately it’s driving me mad so any assistance is very much appreciated.
I do get a fair amount of spam, but it isn’t a real problem with the help of two different plugins.
Akismet locates and marks comments as spam, and then I use “Block Top Spammers” to actually prevent the heavy duty spammers from accessing the site. Over time you start to get less and less spam. It is important to remember that not every “spammer” is actually a person spamming, some are people with infected computers that are being used to perform SPAM. So I only block an IP Address where it has spammed more than once in a day. “Block Top Spammers” makes this very easy.
Thanks
Jamesakadamingo