I’ve gotten nearly 200 spam comments in two days. I get them from time to time, but this flood is new.
I’ve closed comments on older posts, but they’ve moved to pages. And I’ve long since arranged my settings so that new commenters have to have their remarks approved–but sorting through the spam for actual comments to approve is a nuisance, and takes time I don’t really have.
So while I don’t particularly want to add captcha to my site, I’m wondering if that might not be the way to go.
What say you, actual commenters? Would that keep you from commenting? Because I want you to. I just don’t want to have to find your comments among the onslaught of nonsense.
And in the meantime, here’s a more . . . er . . . loving look at SPAM.
I hate those spam comments – I have several filters on the blog and STILL I get tons of them. Frustrating!
Now I just have to figure out how to make it work.
CAPTCHA is an annoying bit of reality – but it’s not going to keep me away 🙂
I use Akismet with WordPress . . . it’s generally really good . . . but lately? Tons of spam has been getting through – particularly on fitness-related posts. It’s been driving me bonkers.
Well, somebody’s less likely comment, according to the poll, and that makes me sad. Unless they’re a spammer. But then how would they know to take the poll?
There are spam engines that will automatically place a response on each form post, just to make sure that the form submission makes it past.
Clever of them to pick that one. Now I think it’s Skynet.