How do you fight spam on your blog?

Akismet does most of my work and All I do is bulk delete the comments that Akismet catches without even looking at the actual comments.

Very satisfied with Akismet performance.

I use the Spam Karma II plugin, but it works the same way. The plugin does most of the work and I bulk delete the spam it catches. Other than that I mostly monitor my blog to catch the few spam posts that get through.

A. Posting your blog on a signature on a softcore marketing forum with mass readership is an excellent way to feed it spam. Traffic is a funnel. And it filters down to what is at the core. You think you're attracting proper readers to your blog through your links strewn around here with your posts, but really it's a world of people disinsterestedly moving through links far from designed to tell the user they really asked to be at the other end. So remove your sig, and the spam will stop bleeding once the blood's run dry. Hmm, metaphor didn't come across how I was thinking. Still. What I'm saying is the obvious sad truth, but technically a paradox if existent on this page. Who knows what Dr Schrodinger would do.

B. (The simplest solution is to get rid of your blog as blogs are just people's egos spilled out onto the web and are a total pretentious pile of crap).

I block out each country which attempts to hack or spam me. You should host all worthwhile web presences on servers and everything else is a waste, a lie or a theft. Block out China to prevent serious hacking, and Koreas with it. Russia and numerous Eastern European nations must be blocked to eradicate 90% of spam. India covers most of the other 10%. Luckily the USA's predominant spamming m.o. is spam email ****e. Hence why USA/UK people frequently/usually have antispam all over their email. The nation-blocking thing works for me because I don't gain anything from those audiences, my sites are in English.

Other areas of the world hacking attempts have come through include - numerous South American nations, Iran, Germany, Holland.

Of course with a server you can also just block out individual IPs, which I do all the time also, with anyone attempting to hack (spam ceased years ago, it's pretty easy to wipe it out 100% if you're not stupid, but don't let me steal the show from those who know all about THAT). A little file called hosts.deny

Akismet does a great job keeping spammers out of your blog, otherwise you can use javascript methods.

Originally Posted by inordertobeable

A. Posting your blog on a signature on a softcore marketing forum with mass readership is an excellent way to feed it spam. Traffic is a funnel. And it filters down to what is at the core. You think you're attracting proper readers to your blog through your links strewn around here with your posts, but really it's a world of people disinsterestedly moving through links far from designed to tell the user they really asked to be at the other end. So remove your sig, and the spam will stop bleeding once the blood's run dry. Hmm, metaphor didn't come across how I was thinking. Still. What I'm saying is the obvious sad truth, but technically a paradox if existent on this page. Who knows what Dr Schrodinger would do.

B. (The simplest solution is to get rid of your blog as blogs are just people's egos spilled out onto the web and are a total pretentious pile of crap).

I block out each country which attempts to hack or spam me. You should host all worthwhile web presences on servers and everything else is a waste, a lie or a theft. Block out China to prevent serious hacking, and Koreas with it. Russia and numerous Eastern European nations must be blocked to eradicate 90% of spam. India covers most of the other 10%. Luckily the USA's predominant spamming m.o. is spam email ****e. Hence why USA/UK people frequently/usually have antispam all over their email. The nation-blocking thing works for me because I don't gain anything from those audiences, my sites are in English.

Other areas of the world hacking attempts have come through include - numerous South American nations, Iran, Germany, Holland.

Of course with a server you can also just block out individual IPs, which I do all the time also, with anyone attempting to hack (spam ceased years ago, it's pretty easy to wipe it out 100% if you're not stupid, but don't let me steal the show from those who know all about THAT). A little file called hosts.deny

weww... that explanation does make me confused...

i'll just use akismet then.. it's much simpler..

however, we can block visitors from the specific country by setting .htaccess file in the hosting...

I have found that disqus comment system is excellent when it comes to spam. I have it on my blogger blog.

Well having a WP blog, I fight and manage those spam comments on my blog by using the Akismet plugin because it really helps on filtering such a spam comments.

It depends on how big your blog is already. But most of the times, just install Akismet. It pretty much does 80% job for you and you dont need to worry that much.

Anyways, I have made a comprehensive post on my blog on how I deal with comment spam: http://www.melvinblog.com/2009/01/spam-spam/

by moderating the comments i receive...

Hi,

We likes WordPress blogging tool as CMS. To combat with spam we use the Akismet plugin which restricts spam up to desirable level...

Hi,
There are thousands of spammers flood your blog everyday, and spam comments is a serious problem for all bloggers. Everyday, we need to go through the comments and read them to make sure these comments are not spam. These spam comments not only waste our time.

Thanks

Defensio claims to offer a 99,7% spam removal, sounds quite interesting, you could try using this for free.

if you are a wordpress user, Akismet is the best to control your spam. i don't know about other blog platform uses.

Akismet is a good plugin where in you can get to know about the spammers and more over you can also moderate the comments and if you find them as genuine then you can go ahead!!!

yes, also try to put no follow tags and they will stop doing it.

My blog forces approval before spam posts can actually be seen, but that doesn't stop folks from continually trying to hammer it anyway. It is seriously annoying, as 90% of the Comments I get are just junk spam, and horrifically written spam as well, LOL!!! At least none of it is actually being published on my site, however.

Oh, and my blog is powered by http://b2evolution.net/, although I didn't pick that, my Web Designer did, but I have no complaints about it after the first year here.

Akismet is most popular and very usefull plugin. Some spams pass by but its easy to delete them .

I agree with the above said.Akismet is the most popular anti spam plugin for Wordpress.Akismet will check the comment through the web service to determine if it is spam. Suspected comments will be marked as spam and users can go through them later.