Just FYI—I’ve been getting a few more than normal spam comments the last couple of days. I noted in my search logs that they are coming in with referrer phrases like:
community “Remember my personal information” “Notify me of follow-up comments.”
They then hand-enter comments, CAPTCHA and all, for the sole purpose of linking to their site.
In other words, they are finding & targeting blogs by using the default labels on the comments form in their searches. I’ve changed the labels on my comments form this morning to some alternate wording to see if it helps mitigate the spam.
EE techhie note - this was one of those payback moments for implementing my weblogs all with a shared comments form. Even though I run four blogs on the site, changing the wording in one template took care of all of them.