It being a quiet day, work-wise, I have been doing a little tidying up around here. Mostly it has been cosmetic, and I don’t suppose many of you will notice. However, there is one question I wanted to ask. I’ve been thinking of dropping the “Recent Comments” box. It may be useful to some people, but I’ve noticed that I get a lot more comment spam on the Mewsings that I do on SFAW, despite SFAW having more readers and a massively higher Technorati rating. I suspect this is because when they do get through they appear in the “Recent Comments” box, which gets the spammer paid (I’m pretty sure only manually-posted comment spam is getting through). So the question is, does anyone out there actually use the “Recent Comments” list, or do you all subscribe to the comments feed like sensible people?

Next job, try to find some means of dealing with the damn sploggers.

Update: Aha! I’ve found a plugin that claims to check trackbacks for spam. That should do the trick.