Fingers crossed – there goes comment moderation!
March 9th, 2009
A couple of years ago, when this site was getting far higher Google rankings than it does now, and much more traffic (oh, the good old days!), I got hit by a tidal wave of comment spam that required a lengthy and tedious clean-up process to get it all out of my archives.
This happened while I had the WordPress Akismet plugin turned on. Akismet certainly picks up most comment spam, but a lot still gets through. After I turned on moderation I then had to do a weekly cleanup of all the spam sitting waiting for approval.
But since installing the WP-SpamFree plugin about six months ago, I’ve had no comment spam at all. None. Not one little bit of it.
So now, but with a certain amount of hesitation, I’m turning off moderation again. This means that anything you comment here, or on any other post, will be immediately visible to anyone who visits the site.
So go on. Give it a go. Leave me a comment. Go on!
Awh, go on, go on, go on, go on! 
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