Spammers… argh!!
Of course I’ve taken my own advice, and I have the plugin Akismet installed & switched on… but comment spammers have still been targeting me heavily – up to 100 spam comments on some (bad) days!
Now I know that Akismet stops these comments from going anywhere they shouldn’t, but I just don’t like the idea of being attacked like this… yep, I took it a bit personally! Daft, I know, as it’s me vs. the robots but still… I did 
So here’s what I did to dramatically reduce the “gumph” that was getting on to my WordPress blogs:
(by the way: another benefit of reducing spam is it takes up less space on your hosting account – always a good thing!!)
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Update: 5 days later
After having the WP-Captcha plugin AND the time limit (under “Discussion”) both switched off for 5 days, I’m already up to 54 new spam comments. So I’ve now switched the plugin back on and will monitor.
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Hi Tracey
Just to let you know I finally installed the WP-Captcha plugin and no spam for two days! I also switched the time limit to posts not older than 90 days and think this also helps, because most of the spam comments were made on posts older than a year.
I must admit though, in a way I miss the spam comments because I got some good laughs from some of them. But as we all know, spam is no laughing matter..
Thanks for sharing this plugin.
You’re welcome Elsie, and here’s to many spam-free days
Hi Tracey,
I am definitely going to add this plugin to my blog too. I deleted all the spam comments and it would be interesting to see how it works.
Update: 5 days later
After having the WP-Captcha plugin AND the time limit (under “Discussion”) both switched off for 5 days, I’m already up to 54 new spam comments. So I’ve now switched the plugin back on and will monitor.