After I made the post about my car’s wheels, I went to a couple of sites where I had asked about it while researching, and wrote posts saying I had done it successfully, and included a link to my blog.

A few days later I received a comment on my post with just the word “Nice!” and a couple hours later another post with just “Cool.” I thought that it was nice, that people were starting to come to my blog.

But two or three days later I was receiving about ten to fifteen posts per day with those same words (there was one “Interesting” and one “Sorry”). And also a couple of different posts about drug and porn.

I started looking for spam plugins for WordPress (which I use to run this blog). I just installed two of them:

  • Akismet which came preinstalled with WordPress, but I had to activate it. It is a filter that checks all new posts for possible spam.
  • Peter’s Random Anti-Spam, which shows the user an image with random letters on it. Supposedly, this will stop most spambots.

From my quick tests, they seem to work fine. Let’s see how they work with real spam.

To my human readers, please accept my apologies. I know it will be a little of a nuisance, but that’s the way it has to be. Thanks for your understanding.