pointing out the obvious

Akismet is an awesome spam filter - no question.  It’s successfully caught over 2000 comment spams correctly so far.  Unfortunately, it catches spam AFTER the user submits it.  So my little host is still being destroyed by traffic as a result of these spammers.  So, I put in a quick javascript check field into the comments.  I did it in 10 minutes, while waiting my turn here at jury duty, so please let me know if it causes problems for you.

Spammers - why do you do it?

If anyone out there is having issues with comment spam, the akismet comment spam plug-in for wordpress is amazingly effective. 27 for 27 so far over the last 24hrs - apparently pharmacheaps.com is on a marketing rampage.

Update - 141 for 141. Awesome.