What is the best method to keep bots from spamming your blog?

Question

I got a problem at my blog. I got visits from kind bots who leave \"nice\" comments to my blog posts :(

I\'m wondering if there is a smarter way to keep them out, besid

Answer 1

If the spam you are receiving is link-heavy you could assume any comment that contains >= 2 links is a spam comment and not post it to the blog unless the blog author approves them. This is what most comment-spam plugins do. I'm currently working on a blog software and I adopted this solution in the interim until I can integrate akismet fully.