If you have a blog, you no doubt are in constant battle to keep spam comments at bay. Like most Wordpress bloggers, I use Akismet as my defense system, and it’s incredibly effective - as of today it’s caught almost 45,000 junk messages!

But the spam evil-doers are constantly changing their tactics, and over the last few months I’ve seen more and more garbage comments slip through the filter. So I’ve taken spam-blocking measures one step further and installed Blue Anvil’s Spam Stopper. Basically this just incorporates a question into the fields that you fill out when submitting a comment:

By answering the question, it proves that you’re “human.” Granted, the question isn’t hard to answer (I left it at the default), but I will change it to something a little more difficult and that should cut down junk messages to about nothing.

If you have any problems submitting comments, please let me know.