Enough is enough! Even though I had the most recent version of Bad Behaviour and of course Akismet, I still had to manually remove tons and tons of comment spam. So I decided to try 2 more plugins.

• Math Comment Spam Protection: Asks the visitor making the comment to answer a simple math question. This is intended to prove that the visitor is a human being and not a spam robot. Example of such question: What is the sum of 2 and 9? This is much better than a Captcha, in my opinion.
• Simple Trackback Validation: Eliminates spam trackbacks by retrieving the web page located at the URL used in the trackback and checking if the page contains a link to your blog: if not, the trackback needs to be moderated and is not being published.

After a day of trying both these out, I’m very pleased so far. I’ll see what happens after a week or so. Kudos to Michael Woehrer for creating a couple of really useful plugins. Michael’s recommendation is to use both of these plugins along with Akismet
for effective spam protection.

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