I wanted to thank Simone at SNCDestinations’ blog for her nice post about our perspective on the Starbucks/Forbidden City situation. But her blog is in “Emergency Comment Blockage Mode.”
I Googled the term and found out that it allows you to disable commenting for your whole blog when under heavy spam attack.
Now, we have a lot of blogs here at Blog Business Summit. A lot of blogs means that we get a LOT of comment spam. But on the blogs that run WordPress we use Akismet, which is frankly the only spam blocking software I’ve ever been 100% happy with.
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Andru Edwards 01.23.07 at 1:16 pm
You know…you can run Akismet on blogs that aren’t run on WordPress as well, right?
I run it on all my blogs, and none use WordPress. It has an API, and everyone should use it 
Teresa Valdez Klein 01.24.07 at 12:05 pm
Andru: To be honest, I didn’t know that. I’ve hunted about a little for a MT plugin that would do the trick, but honestly haven’t gotten into the nitty gritty of it.