Spammers seem to be shrewd programmers. After all, can YOU write a script that scours the Internet for pre-set keywords, finds blogs, and makes asinine comment posts? Didn’t think so.

So there, the credit is given where it’s due, but still … It’s highly frustrating to see your blog fill up with trash. It’s definitely an effort to moderate/delete comment spam, and it’s even more of an effort to implement an anti-spam solution. So being a lazy guy that I am, I worked out an easier solution: I went to my host and blocked out all spam IP addresses.

It seems like work, sure, but if you set up your shortcuts, it’s just a simple copy/paste job – copy the spam IP, paste it into IP Deny page (most Linux hosts with CPanel have it), and Submit.

After a few days you’ll have a bulletproof comment spam shield around your beloved blog – without relying on plugins (most are buggy, anyway).

It works like magic – comment spam abruptly stopped. My email notification is going off a little less frequent, though, and I’m debating whether it is such a good thing =)