How do I stop comment spam in my blog?

You website rates high in Google! There are other sites that answer questions and allow anyone to post responses, but why do you think your site is ranked so high?

I think it's because of your use of standard HTML pages so Google can index your pages easily.

Does Movable Type export HTML files or generate them dynamically? Thank you!

I think it's because I've paid some attention to some simple things, and haven't tried to "game the system". Yes, MT allows a lot of control over the HTML it generates, and I did invest some time there.

I am also suffering from spamming but there is no any successfull way to solve this problem.

I use Textpattern for my site, www.frontstretch.com and haven't had the problem of comment spam yet. I've seen a couple of casino sites show up, but the software automatically hides it because it recognizes it as spam. Also, since it's not as widely used as MT or Joomla, it isn't a target for spammers as often I've been told. That, and it's multiauthor support, were the main reason I chose to use Textpattern.

Another trick is to cut off commenting after two weeks. Many of the spammers don't care if humans see the links really, only if search robots do.

Spammers never cease to amaze me. I've been on the net a long time and have become pretty much immune to all kinds of advertisments.

Don't these spammers who create the bots realize that:

A) 90% of blogs aren't high traffic

and

B) Anyone with half a brain in their head knows its spam just by looking at the URL

I think the main thing that pisses me off with blog spam is the fact that many blogs are people's personal websites (like mine) on which we don't display ads because we choose to just have the "meat and potatos" on our pages. Then some idiot comes along and wants to put their adverts on our site for free.

Anyhow I've been using Wordpress for many of my websites for a while now. I believe WP and MT and made by the same company.. Anyhow WP has a neat plugin called Ankiset (sp?) anti-spam which works very well. Maybe MT has something similar.

Many of the spammers aren't interested in getting people off your site and onto theirs. What they're actually trying to do is increase their sites ranking in search engines (like Google) which rank on number of incoming links from other sites.

you should also check out recaptcha.net pretty sweet and barely anything to install.

After using Captcha, there seem to be a certain decrement in spam messages that i used to receive regularly. And the news about the Update of Captcha is also quite pleasing one, because i too found some loopholes in the previous version and was concerned about those too. I hope that the mistakes would have been identified and being removed. In the whole i have been busy in looking some useful websites regarding Anti-spamming solutions and i would like to share the site that i found most useful.
http://anti-spam-info.com
After going through this web, you’ll certainly find it worth full to be shared.

I stopped all my comment spam for my Wordpress blog by using "Comment Bot Nuker". All the other plugins I tried for Wordpress only holds the comment spam from moderation. I tried them all even the "add math" and Askimet. Most all the comment spam you will get is actually from the bots that scour the Internet looking for security breaches. Using Comment Bot Nuker it nukes the comments before it is even held for moeration and lets the good comments through. So there is nothing to moderate. I don't have to go through hundreds of comments held for moderation anymore. I foudn it here:
http://videomarketingtactics.com/vmt/stop-wordpress-spam

Yeah comment spamming is an issue even nowadays. I'm using Akismet on my SEO blog Malta which seems to do the trick.

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