Targeting Spam > Blog spam is out of control!

[Balfes.net] Not sure where to begin with this one but I want to let my readers know the pain and suffering I go through each day.  If it wasn’t for the fact I have a WordPress application on my iPhone and marking comments as spam is as easy as a single click I think I would just kill the site.  I am now getting 5-20 spam posts a day on this site and I even have a basic spam control on the comment form.  I could log into the actual site each day and click the spam button on each of these but I like just doing it on my iPhone as soon as I see a comment.  The one thing I do not want is these people getting any hits or clicks from my site so deleting them as soon as possible is imperative.   I guess this is just “business as usual” as a site becomes more popular, I can’t imagine how bad this is for really popular sites!

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