Anyway

I’ve star­ted using the Bad Behavior/Bad Beha­viour plu­gin for Word­Press, which is meant to cut down on the num­ber of spam­bots that attempt to access my site. In the­ory it shouldn’t block any real vis­it­ors, although this has been known to hap­pen, so if you notice any prob­lems (e.g., can’t get to my blog from a feed, or from a link or search), please let me know. The plu­gin has been installed a week and nobody’s repor­ted any prob­lems so far. It works nicely with Spam Karma, the spam blocker I use.

I can recom­mend this plu­gin based on my exper­i­ence so far; I’ve noticed the amount of spam that I get is much less, which means that I will be able to check the Spam Karma logs for any real com­ments that were inad­vert­ently caught. If you’re plagued by spam bots on your blog and you have some con­trol over the envir­on­ment, it might be worth try­ing out.