I’ve just deleted a comment from someone claiming to link to a fund raiser for Haiti. I have no idea whether the link was genuine or not, but what made me decide to trash it was that it used a URL encoding service to disguise where it was actually linking to. This is an increasingly common tactic of spammers. Please be warned, if you do this and I do not know you well then your comment will probably be deleted. I’m not going to bother to click through to what may be a malicious site to check it.
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Very prudent.
One would hope that web developers would Get The Message and implement twitter-compatible URLs, but that would mess with their only-a-machine-looks-at-this design sense.
Akismet catches some spam on WordPress blogs.
I don’t have comment moderation enabled here because I have no automated spam protection, I have it because of the amount that still gets through. I’ve just looked at the logs. There have been several hundred attacks on the site today alone.