For the last couple of weeks, the comment spam on this blog has been getting pretty bad. This past week, I renamed the comment script, and I was surprised at how much spam was reduced. I enjoyed being comment-spam free for two days until I got barraged with spam which had adapted to the new name of the script. Today, I stumbled upon MT-Keystrokes, a plugin which ensures human input before approving the comment. I'll give it a try and see how it works out, although I believe the relief from spam will only be temporary. I also installed MT-Ban-Numeric and MT-Approval 1.10.
I'm still experimenting with various methods of spam reduction. So far one of the best suggestions I've seen is making the user preview the comment and confirm it before it is submitted/posted.
In implementing these plugins, I also discovered a couple of errors within my previous templates (they were using old MT 2.x templates), but I still have problems with the comments not giving feedback to the user that it was submitted for approval before posting.
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