In the past year I’ve registered over 104,000 comment sp@m on this blog. I’ve been using Akismet, which works well, but at +1,000 per day, they were chewing up bandwidth and slowing the system. I liked Akismet because it allowed me to accept new and anonymous comments, without the hassles of captchas or Turing tests, which I personally dislike.
I’ve just added Bad Behavior to my defence arsenal and it’s reduced trashy comments by almost 50%, but that’s still a lot. My recent change has been to enable “Strict Mode”, which is supposed to be more effective, but may block some legitimate comments. I’ve learned that Bad Behavior in strict mode may block comments from those behind firewalls, especially government and corporate systems.
If you are reading this from a government or corporate system, how about posting a quick comment and seeing if you get through? New comments are moderated, so it may take a while before your comment shows. Thanks.
Hello? testing…
Thanks, Stephen.