Often if a comment is moderated they’ll end up submitting 2-4 comments not realising that it was moderated.

@Dr Mike My preference is definitely comment moderation based on terms and IP address. Hence the reason why I’ve listed it first. I’ve found that works the best for the type of spammers I’m having to deal with.

Akismet is only running on one of my two blogs and I don’t see that much difference from using it.

@Liane YoungBlogger Totally agree. I must change the post on my personal blog as I’ve now had way too many spam comments of ‘have a good holiday “

The other problem is the use of Akismet within a service like EduBlogs. It’s actually a quick one line change to the Akismet file and James could offer complete sitewide service without the need for folks to run to another site to pick up a license. The problem though to do that, it costs money. A great deal of it. So much so the pricing isn’t even listed on that page. They do a free option but it requires their own advertising on your sites.

Let’s also be honest. Most folks don’t check the spam queue. They assume that a service like Akismet is plugin and forget and if it’s in there, it;s supposed to be in there.

There is an alternative though which is something I’ve suggested in the support forums a couple of times. The use of Typepad’s solution. They’ve stated a number of times that the use of their service is 100% free, even on a setup like Edublogs. All it would require would be two edits of the Akismet plugin, the free license obtainable from Typepad and the change of the url of the server that the check is made against.

Thanks Sue.

Yeah, right!

About 5 a month on my blog. I try to resist comment moderation. But there will come a time . . .

Catchya later

I totally agree regarding comment moderation which is why I love being able to do it selectively.

I’ve looked inside Blogger and they don’t give you a lot of options for controlling. I would change Comment moderation to Only on posts older than (and decide on a good number of days). Most spammers on my blogs start writing spam comments when the post is a bit older. Whereas normally readers write comments within a few days of the post being published – although there are some exceptions to that on The Edublogger.

I get a lot who get past Akismet and they often will have several companies they are spamming for. So it can take time to get them under control.

I have been very lucky over the last couple of years and have had little spam so have been able to resist using the comment moderation because I think it puts in barriors to people leaving comments.

BUT…I have been getting a lot of spam over the last month…to one particular post. Would you be able to give me advice on how to deal with this problem on Blogger?