Akismet to the rescue
My blog got hit by relentless comment spam this week. If it hasn’t happened to you yet, let me tell you: this is a major downer. When comment spam hits your blog, you often have little recourse but to turn off commenting completely. That strikes me as a very sad, antisocial outcome of bullying behavior.
Fortunately I found a great solution in Akismet. I installed Akismet yesterday and it instantly, completely blocked my comment spam.
Thank you Akismet!
(The Akismet folks also have a cute little blog about how much spam they block.)