One easy step to eliminating WordPress comment spam
I posted about this at a forum I won’t mention, but you can go ahead and deactivate your Captchas & worthless Akismet; this plugin stops it all and requires zero intervention from the mod.
You know how Akismet always shows the last few thousand spams it has blocked? After months of using the SpamBam plugin it still says “Akismet (0)”. Clear out Akismet and install this plugin: when they say “No more comment spam” they mean it, and all you do is install and forget: SpamBam
Site slow? Another good one is Bad Behavior. A few good must-haves are here also.