Spam Hardening WordPress 2.1

I’m starting an adult blog and while I realize that’s not everyone’s forte it is a blog and I think it would be nice if other adult bloggers and visitors could comment on articles just like any other blog.

However due to the nature of it spam is most likely going to be a problem I contacted a few other adult bloggers and they were kind enough to reply, on the subject of spam they all said flat out they had to completely disable comments and trackbacks.

I’m hoping it doesn’t come to this so im going to give it a try with them enabled, here is what I have done so far.
Set up domain I have a virtual shared server set up database installed wordpress 2.1 installed a new theme started reading up on wordpress as I’ve never used it before and saw that many were having a problem with spam read the support forums about comment and trackback spam.

I have to say im surprised that with so many wordpress users having a spam problem that there isn’t a huge sticky post detailing exactly what plug ins and how to install them if they cant be included in the wordpress distro itself for license reasons.
I saw the articles on worpress about comment spam and plug ins
http://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Spam_Tools
but it seems to spread out when In My Opinion it should be merged into one killer anti spam page.

Here are the anti spam steps I’ve taken so far enabled akismet installed and enabled sk2 apparently sk2 didn’t like my new theme as it threw errors so I switched to default theme and refreshed and it seems to be happy now
installed and enabled bad-behavior.

Right now that is where im at I haven’t made a post yet as id like to spam harden my system as much as possible now rather than later when I have a good site going and something to lose if I mess up or a plug in is outdated and crashes something. ( is that possible? I don’t even know, seems possible )

So
akismet http://akismet.com/
sk2 http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/
bad-behavior http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us/
All running at once I have seen post’s mentioning that akismet can be run as a plug in to sk2 I believe it was but they didn’t go into much detail, should I be running akismet as a plug in to sk2?

I haven’t changed any of the settings in wordpress at the moment they are at the default settings.

Anything that you would recommend to help spam harden my blog would be greatly appreciated

PS sorry about the book there I love to write.