I’m doing some revising of the site to combat spam commenting. I’m continuing to use Spam Karma, it’s been working well. The problem seems to be that so much spam is hitting Spam Karma that it’s using up my entire PHP load and timing out the site.  In an effort to stop this I’ve installed a challenge question.  This should cut down on the spam that gets through to Spam Karma, and speed up the whole process. I’ve also installed WP-cache so that pages should load quicker.

I’ve turned back on comment subscribe as well. Hopefully the other changes will allow this to remain on as I’m fond of it.

Registered and logged in commenters will not receive the challenge, so if you find it annoying you’re welcome to register.

I’d appreciate it if a few of you would comment on this post, or any other,  and let me know if it’s working properly. My e-mail link is at the top of the sidebar if you can’t seem to get a comment through.