Another thing with these spam blocking plugins – how can you be sure that you’re not missing valid comments? The moment you start trying to filter by content you have a possibility of valid comments accidentally getting filtered as spam. I consider that a problem. This is why I like the captcha because it’s some attempt to differentiate between human and computer…
I understand the idea of using some WP plugins, but I’m trying to figure out if something in 2.0.3 is broken or more vulnerable to mass spam attacks than 2.0.2.
My point is that with 2.0.2 I was getting the occasional spam comment (which I assume was someone manually working around my captcha) but upon upgrading to 2.0.3 I haven’t had a rest from spam comments. Between last night and this morning I’ve gotten 410 comments – that’s someone who has clearly worked around my captcha in some automated fashion…
