I decided to join the Do Follow movement, which is… the opposite of the No Follow movement. The nofollow attribute was intended to discourage comment spammers by telling search engines not to trust links posted by visitors in blogs and forums. However, the spam problem has not gotten any better.
Despite the relentless efforts by [...]
Fighting Comment Spam with Bad Behavior, Akismet, Spam Karma
I’ve been using Akismet since I started using WordPress in early 2006. It does a tremendous job of detecting spam. However, it’s not perfect and a few messages gets past its filter each week. Since I enforced moderation on new posters, this kept the spam from showing up on the blog. However, that measure prevented [...]