I haven’t had my blog for very long, only about a year and a half. At first, it seemed that Bad Behavior was keeping spambots out, but then I started to get spam messages in moderation (only a couple weren’t sent to moderation). So, I installed a math plugin and I haven’t gotten any spam since (I hope that doesn’t dissuade valid commenters from commenting, but at least it’s more accessible than CAPTCHA).

I don’t like Akismet on principle. On many principles, actually. I refuse to use it on my blog and I get mildly angry when people tout it as a be-all solution. In my opinion, the best anti-spam solution is probably what Pivot uses: user-defined questions that are displayed randomly. For spam bots to overcome them, they’d have to actually understand these unique questions. And making questions that are unique to your blog’s purpose (e.g. programming questions) would without doubt make it even more effective.

Just my two cents.

Apparently, SpamForceField is a little too aggressive. It is blocking even my comments, and I am logged in.