Long time no see Mr Spam but now get out!

It has been a while, months, maybe even a year, oh no, even since June 2007, that I have received a Spam comment in my blog or better, in my comment moderation loop.

Unfortunately, it seems as if something must have happened or changed lately, because I now get a few spam comments a day. This is not too bad, I know that bloggers usually get up to Hundreds of Spams a day, but after having a blog for quite a while with NO spam at all, it is just annoying that it starts over again…And at the moment I have more spam than real comments, haha! It must have something to do with one of the last WordPress plugins that I installed. I am trying out quite a few new plugins recently, so I don’t have a clue, which one it might be.

Lately, I installed “GetWeather“, “Easy Picasa“, “(c)feed“, “feed stats“, “Feed Statistics“, “IntensiveDebate” (had spam before this was installed), and since today “WP Stats“. My feeling is that it started after I installed the feed plugins, but I am not sure.

I don’t really want to install the math-question (“what is the sum of one and five?”) into my comment textarea again, which is a great tool, but still it is annyoing for the reader to type in any extra stuff before a comment can be made. I thought “Akismet” and the “Simple Trackback Validator” plugin were doing a great job so far. I wonder if it really has to do with one of my recently installed plugins…

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