In order to keep spam out of my comments as much as possible, here are a few changes to my policy;

  • Visitors have to enter their name and email address before commenting;
  • Comments don’t appear until I approve them

So if you post a comment, don’t worry if it doesn’t appear immediately. I get over 20 spam comments per day, most of wich are caught by Akismet luckily, but some make it through. It seems like spam is getting worse and worse, and nobody is doing anything about it. We don’t need to work on better spam filters, we just need to eliminate spammers. If the top 10 spammers in the world get caught and taken care of (I leave it to everyone’s sick imagination what that means), the number of spam messages will drop significantly.