I’ve had some issues for some time with blog spam. Comments on posts from “people” with URLs and links to poker, sex enhancement, etc. sites. My past response was to block the offending IP address range. Most of it was coming from offshore so that wasn’t much of a problem. None of this spam has ever shown up on the site, because I manually approve all the comments posted.
Recently, I’ve had people trying to hit the site in the US and getting blocked. So, I installed Akismet spam blocker and I’ll relax the IP blocking. We’ll see if that works. Some other alternatives are comments on login only, captcha pictures, or other spam plugins. However, I want this as simple as possible. No ones going to remember passwords or try very hard to leave a 1 sentence comment.
Happy New Year