Comment spam used to be nothing more than a tiny annoyance, but as this site’s traffic has increased so has the amount of spam. Currently it all goes into a moderation queue until I approve/delete it. It’s not a huge burden to check the queue once in a while and process the comments, but I figured there had to be a better way.

Based on a suggestion from Lon, I installed Akismet tonight.

Akismet (free API key required) uses a collaborative web service to decide if each comment is spam or not. If it gets tagged as (potential) spam, it goes into a special queue that is automatically deleted after 15 days. So, assuming I don’t get a lot of false positives, I should be set.

We’ll see how it goes, but so far so good.

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