new to blogging….and now blog spam
So, you want to have your own blog? Just set it up and start writing? Sure, just wait till you get hammered with comment spam. My first spam comment hit less than an hour after going live.
Fortunately, I have installed Three Strikes, a plugin for WP which I am pleased to say has, for its first four days of operation, solved the problem. WP is great if you are willing to spend a bit of time to finetune the installation