Hey, where’s my comment?

Recently, you’ve probably noticed how many spam comments my plugins aren’t catching. I don’t like seeing it get though. It gives the site a weedy look, and never more so than when it’s hawking some questionable product or service. If I didn’t have other life priorities, I suppose I should just find better plugins, but that’s a near impossibility with my decrepit version of WordPress, and an upgrade is a bigger project than I’m willing to take on right now. The second choice would be to identify the keywords associated with comment spam, but I think I’ve exhausted that one. That leaves one reasonably sure way to block the spam out, which is to send any comment containing a hyperlink into the moderation filter. That’s unfortunate, because many of the best comments are either from other bloggers or (as my rules encourage) contain supporting links to buttress their assertions. I’m going to try this for a while and see how it works; meanwhile, thanks for being patient. I have two time windows a day when I should hopefully have the chance to liberate comments from the moderation filter.