I run one forum about holidays in Scotland. It is a quiet little forum with just a few active members.
I’ve dealt daily with spam registrations from people wanting a link back to their spammy site, but recently I’ve found a new type of spam registration.
They are all innocent enough looking. The user sets up their [...]

I decided the best comment spam protection for this installation of Wordpress was Akismet. It’s dead easy to install and really looks like it will run in the background no bother at all. Now I can remove “Delete comment spam” from my list of things to do each morning. The one issue was that you [...]

Well the spam has finally got out of hand. Up to now I’ve been deleting a few spammy comments each morning but this morning I logged in to find 82 spam comments for various pharmaceuticals. I have no idea what these pills do or why they want a nofollow link from an SEO site but [...]