Wife:  Have you got anything without spam?
Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Wife: I don't want ANY spam!
Man: Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage?
Wife: THAT'S got spam in it!
Man: Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it?

I was getting lots of spam comments recently. I don't know why. The spam comments make little sense and only complete idiot's would click any link they may have contained. Even funnier is that some of them were pointless and didn't have a link but just something that may or may not have had to do with the article at all. I've experienced that with wordpress blogs initially and had thought it was only a wordpress issue as in they were specifically targeted...but apparantly not.

So anyway, I decided to use e-mail validation on the back end. Basically it just validates the the email domain is a real one. This will prevent the spammers from getting spam through using completely fake email addresses. If you don't see your comment after posting it, it's because its posted but not active yet.

If you have a comment section thats getting spammed, check this link out http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9585 and if you know how to edit php, you can modify the comment code of wordpress or whatever software to help eliminate the spam or at least force them to use legitimate email addresses. (at least the @whatever.com part). I prefer to do whatever I can to allow comments without much moderation. I also hate doing those bot tests with the letters that I can never read...

Edit:

Well, they did just that. Now they are using @gmail.com for the spam. :(   Maybe I'll try a simple anit-bot question...