How do you prevent spam comments in your blog? In Blogspot.com, it seems like you have to moderate all comments manually. But in WordPress, the Akismet plugin is used to catch spams. If you are hosting your own WordPress blog, Akismet is also one essential plugin to be installed.

Although I have Akismet installed, I still can get a lot of spam comments which will be filed under “Akismet Spam” for further manual moderation. Although you can mark the comment as spam to let Akismet learns to identify more spams, it is still quite tiring if you have to moderate all spam comments that looks like this: [...more]

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