Mon 1 Nov 2004
I don’t get a huge number of comments on this site. I like to keep things as free and open as possible. However, I’ve been hit by about 100 spam comments in the last 2 days. It appears to be some sort of distributed bot that’s doing it all as all of the comments are the same format, linking to the same sites, but from different IPs. That’s the biggest problem; I can’t just block an IP range. So for now all comments are going to be moderated. Sorry folks.
UPDATE: Toned down to only moderate comments with links ala Malach’s suggestion untill I get time to install Kitten’s Spaminator
I don’t know how recent the version of WP you’re using is, but I’ve got mine set to moderate all comments with a link in them.
Most comments don’t have links, and the few that do get mailed to me for approval.
Seems to work quite well.
I’m guessing that you got hit by the same lot I did - I think someone recently got around to putting together a comment spam script for WP - more’s the pity…