I’m not sure who the wise guys are, but they can stop sending out the spam comments. We had nearly 1500 comments containing spam in moderation this past week. It’s pretty sorry news for a site that we haven’t posted that many updates lately to be the focus of spammers.

This event convinces me is to continue using and promoting the Akismet plug-in to help fight the spam. Not a single piece of comment spam was seen by visitors as all the spam were filtered through the Akismet services and put into moderation. Spammers really need to get a life…

One big plus from this event…the Virtual Private Server I’m using to host this site and others didn’t have a single hiccup despite all the spam we got in a short time. The VPS I’m using is available though my resale hosting service, Dakota Hosting. I’ve used a VPS for the past year and recommend it for anyone who is comfortable with server administration.

We use Akismet to filter out the spam that’s posted in the form of comments here at likethatidea.com. The photo below was taken by me a few months ago and I assure you that no altering of the photo was done. I’ll let you be the judge whether the spam comments are really evil or not.

Besides using Akismet for our Wordpress sites, we also use it for our Drupal sites. Akismet seems to work well for both content management systems.? Click here if you digg it!