Will Chatham

For the last 48 hours or so I have been fight­ing a spam­mer who keeps post­ing non­sense com­ments here on my blog. The point is to fill my blog with links to their site, which helps their ser­ach engine rank­ings and spams their site to peo­ple hap­pen­ing to read my comments.

I used the built-in func­tion of Word­Press to mark their com­ments for mod­er­a­tion before being posted, how­ever, they are hit­ting me about 20 times an hour, so this has been a pain to keep up with. Block­ing their IP address from my site has been futile as well, for they use a dif­fer­ent one each time.

So, I did some research and found a great plu­gin called Kitten’s Com­ment Paythat fights back. When some­one sub­mits a com­ment that is marked as poten­tial spam, they are taken to a page where they can pay me $50 via Pay­pal to have it posted

I will keep my fin­gers crossed and see how well it works.