Crap . . . my blog has been found I guess.
 

It is getting hit with so much comment spam lately, I must have been discovered.

Good. Im doing your other blogs soon as well.

you gotta love all the comment spam you get while running a blog.

Generally it takes about a month of one of my blogs being active before I start to get the spam sandwiches...one got 500 spam comments in one day last week - yay for mass delete.

add a few plugins and they will be auto deleted.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Yeah, I hate that crap... I've had many sites where the forms get pounded by spam bots.
Captcha is about your best defense.

Well, the intent of this blog was that people could comment to ask questions, so that would not really work

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :thumbsup

THey spam my shopping carts ... the customer review modules ...

I am getting about 1 a minute now

I don't know about other software, but if you're using Wordpress there are quite a few plugins to help you out. Seems like the best option for you would be some sort of captcha verification.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Spam_Tools#Captcha

oh man i fuckin hate that shit. Mine 'got discovered' and I was cleaning out 15,000 before I knew it.

I feel your pain mine got hit by some loan spam, 18 to 25 at a time....good times

yeah it sucks ass. On a few of mine I've had to go into phpmyadmin to clear out the comments. sucks

use SpamKarma

There are comments in moderation (18,348) »

I've had my browser crash opening up the comments section in the admin to delete them, because there were too many to load.

Something I've done without using a plugin is to add www. and http:// to the blacklisted words section. Then people could still make a comment or ask a question but not spam their urls.

That's fucked up...

Again, this blog is supposed to welcome legit comments. Would be self defeating to block them all . . . although, truth be told, the comment spam pretty much makes it impossible for me to notice if there was a legit question asked

Yikes.. 500? That's insane..

When I install a new wordpress, the first thing I do is turn on askimet. It isn't perfect, but it is a good start.

Then I specifically block out:

.info/
.ru/
.pl/
.it/

and a couple of other things... those things alone get rid of about 99% of comment spam, and I only have to review occassional entries. Make sure that you do not enable automatic approval of comments, or your blog will get seriously fucked up in about 10 minutes. When these fuckers find their comments getting listed, then will turn around and literally jam thousands of them a day at you.

Secure your blog and help stop the fucking asshole spammers from getting anything. They all deserve to locked up.

wordpress... they have a list of common spam terms that you can block out...

wordpress... they have a list of common spam terms that you can block out...

Sorry man, trackback spider just came out yesterday and I needed somewhere to test :Oh crap

i feel your pain.....ugh

one of my celebrity blogs has over 17,000 comments on the one post

comment spammers suck

Setup some anti-spam plugins there :2 cents:

Baddog the answer is simple, get a CAPTCHA wordpress mod, ALL your spam will go away, have a good day!