Price for SPAM you are prepared to pay

SPAM!SPAM is no.1 enemy of all blogs, especially new ones. It usually comes in the form of automated comments submitted by various SPAM software but also in the recent days I have been seeing more and more human made SPAM comments.

Purpose of the SPAM comments is to draw attention to a certain site, number of sites or just some keywords. Most spam messages are obvious at first sight, but there are also those that are well covered. Hint: if the name used for the comment is anything other than a real name (for example "Make Money Online") it is likely that the person/software leaving the comment did it mostly for the purpose of own promotion.

Currently I use combination of two plugins to combat spam on this site:

  • Akismet
  • Bad Behavior

Bad Behavior is good for detecting automated comments and Akismet with it's learning mechanism is useful to filter out anything that passes through. But still there is certain amount of manual work required to keep things checked.

Since the problem of SPAM will only elevate in the upcoming time I made a simple poll (you can find it on the right side of the page) to find out what is the price for a total anti-spam solution you are prepared to pay.

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