Since launching Techshots on April 18th, I’ve made 20 posts. Over that period of less than 2 months, I’ve also had 4,500 spam comments. That’s over 100 spam comments a day. Many of them have been blacklisted, but I have to clear out a surprising amount of spam messages manually every night.

So, my plan is to eliminate at least 90% of spam messages (and drop it down to 10 or less spam messages a day). The first step in this plan has been to implement a reCAPTCHA and have the majority of spam comments sent directly to a moderation queue.

The reCAPTCHA should be the most invasive of the procedures that will be added (by forcing all non-registered users to use the widget). You can avoid entering the reCAPTCHA by registering. So long as the reCAPTCHA succeeds, I won’t have to add any other plugins. So here goes hoping.