For the moment I have disabled automatic publishing of comments until I implement a spam filtering system. Some of my very popular posts such as my K750i review are attracting a lot of spam I would prefer not to have. It is annoying that a proprietary comments system can be leveraged by the spam monkeys, they obviously have too much time on their hands.

I am still accepting comments, but I will have to review them before they are published on the site.

Update – Comments are automatically posted again! Except if you’re a spam bot, as you’ll see…

I have now installed the Akismet spam filtering system on my blog. Is very easy to set up, and only took me a few minutes. It’s primarily a Wordpress tool, but there are various different implementations of it available for other blogging tools, as well as barebone PHP4 classes, PHP5 classes, and many other web scripting languages. Go take a look if you want this sort of functionality on your blog.

Update 2 – It seems word has got round all the spammers about my site! Now hat I have erradicated the comment spam, I am getting referer spam which fills my stats with false users and addresses for sites of questionable legality and ethics. Suffice to say I’ll be installing Bad Behaviour at the first opportunity I have!