So normally I get a couple spam comments per month, but I've already had about 10 today, all like this: Author : phentermine prescription (IP: 193.188.77.2 , 193.188.77.2) E-mail : URI : http://phonline.ph.funpic.de/phentermine.prescription.html Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=193.188.77.2 Comment: Very good site. Thank you Spam Karma is catching them, but i'd love to be able to blacklist these guys
did you start submitting RSS feed to those feed burner site? My spamming increase a lot right after that
Hmm, now that you mentioned it I noticed it as well. But fortunately Akismet does what its supposed to do I'd have to disable commenting or worse, shut down my sites, were it not for Akismet - MENJ
i've always been running the RSS feeds, and always submitted to feedburner i wonder if there's a new botnet being harvested
install Peter’s Anti-Spam Image Plugin for Wordpress. Easy to install. I also used to get daily 30-40 spam comments earlier but now, this image verification plugin blocks all types of auto-generated comments.
requiring people to register to be able to make a comment on your blog is a good way to avoid spam imho.
I have also seen a huge rise in spam over a number of blogs that I have. Also try http://akismet.com/ - very agressive spam catcher.
As your blog increases in Google PR and Alexa, it's more attractive to sploggers. i notice you're PR4 and alexa 393k. that's a pretty attractive target. i use akismet and i manually approve all comments. but stuff like the image verification and simple math plugins make it more difficult, but doesnt completely kill the sploggers... no point to ban them, i find it's more useful to spend the time generating more quality content.