When I started this blog, I really didn't think I would
need any comment spam prevention. I have also never liked the idea
of having to moderate/approve comments manually (smells like
work).
However, after about three days on the interwebs, I decided
otherwise. Bring on Akismet from Automattic.
From their website, "Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a
collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue
and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to
worry about spam again."
Sounds good to me, let's get started!