I’m getting loads of comment spam in my moderation queue - just like when Akismet went down about a month ago. This time there’s nothing about it on the Akismet blog.

Is anyone else getting hit?

Update: I’ve just installed Spam Karma 2.2 and within fifteen seconds of activating it it caught three comment spams. As far as I can tell it works happily with Akismet to provide belt and braces spam trapping.

What we really need is a plugin that automatically makes a withdrawal from a shared spam fighting fund and uses it to pay for a hit man (or woman) to solve the problem at source. Of course that’d need a pretty strong AI; the collateral damage cost of any bugs might otherwise sit uneasily on the conscience.

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