In the past few days, I’ve received about 25 emails from my blog to moderate spam comments–all obviously from the same idiot spambot. So I can understand now why the default option is set to send email notifications to the blog administrator. Even if the comments aren’t posted without moderation (by default), that administrator still needs to know what is going on to find some other method to keep these spam comments from getting in their way.

Since Akismet (I can never spell that right) is built into WordPress, the first thing I did was to activate it and see how that worked. Fortunately, on the Akismet configuration page is an option to “Automatically discard spam comments on posts older than a month.” That’s wonderful! The post that that bot keeps trying to comment on is over two months old. Why didn’t they make this option more obvious so I could’ve signed up sooner? Well, I can’t really complain. I just have to sit back now and make sure this works….

Update: it works! So many spam comments caught. Akismet, I love you!