I've been getting a pretty heavy flow of comment spam since I started this blog, which I guess is the nature of allowing comments. I was blocking comments based on banned IP addresses, but there seem to be a lot of zombie machines out there, making the pool of IPs basically limitless. What I had been doing is hand-pruning any spam that was posted, but that got pretty old after a while. So I finally took the time to add Akismet with the RoR Akismet plugin. Very painless installation, but first you must get an Akismet API ket by creating a wordpress account.

I've also added comments into the normal flow of the posts. It didn't really make sense to me to bury those on another page, especially if they contribute to the content of the post.

If you do try posting a comment, but it doesn't take, that's Akismet producing a false-positive. Try making your comment less spammy.