Yesterday, I read this post on DtD's Blog. For the last few months, I've been getting around 20-25 spam posts per day. That is a lot, especially for a small blog like this. Taking DtD's lead, I think I'll upgrade my spam defenses as well.
The packaged spam checker in Habari only detects around 5% of those spam messages, so I switched to the Defensio spam detection system. Here's to hoping that it works, because digging through page after page of comments like "free c1al1s" and "Hi, I'm new here, check out these links" is starting to get REALLY old.
Upgrading stuff helped the spam a bit, but it is still being pretty annoying. I went and got this plugin too, nice find! It was super easy to set up too!
Thus far, Defensio is batting 1000. All spam comments were marked as such, and my one non-spam comment (yours) was left alone. Pretty good! :)