The volume of spam comments has gotten out of control again; there were more than 600 waiting to be cleaned out this morning. Akismet does a fine job of stopping the spam from being posted (and I can count the number of false positives since I started this blog on the fingers of one hand), but I still have to go through the queue and empty it at least once a day.
In an attempt to mitigate this problem, I have installed the WP-Ban plugin and will be configuring it to block IP addresses, or IP address ranges, that are a source of spam. I feel slightly bad about doing this, but in the 30 minutes I’ve had WP-Ban installed, it has blocked 15 spam attempts.
If anybody runs into problems with this, please let me know. I’ve added my contact email address to the WP-Ban page as well. We’ll see if the Beats by Dr. Dre scumbags, or any of the other spammers, try to contact me.