Comment Spam
Posted by Davy Brion on May 24th, 2009
I used to go over the comments that were marked as spam on a regular basis to check for false positives. This was pretty doable in the past since i got between 30-50 spam comments on a daily basis and you could usually scroll through them pretty quickly to identify real comments. Lately though, i’ve been getting several hundred of spam comments per day and i really don’t have the time to go through all of that. Unlike some other bloggers, i refuse to disable commenting in general due to spam so some legit comments might accidentally be flagged as spam and won’t show up. So, if you leave a comment and it’s not showing up immediately, just send me an email (preferably from the same address you filled in for the comment) and i’ll try to rescue it from the spam filter. I do delete spammed comments pretty regularly so don’t wait around if your comment isn’t displayed immediately 
May 26th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Having also a wordpress blog, I suffered the same spam overflow that you may be experiencing. After trying different solution, I now use the “wp-num-captcha” plugin that will just the visitor to answer a simple math question. It stopped the spamming instantly and still allow “true” people to comment. Installation is very easy.
May 26th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
thanks for the tip, i’ll look into that plugin