Well, seems like I’m not the only one having problems with this. Even this particlur “poker spam freak” has been referenced by other WordPress users. I found this discussion when looking for a possible solution. There are some embedded solutions within WordPress, but they leave something to be desired. I don’t want to moderate all the comments… I don’t want to receive them in the first place! There’s IP ban lists available (via a WP plugin), but those have to be updated. Apparently, the next version of WordPress will have more on handling comment-spam. I could add a CAPTCHA scheme to the comments, and that would be kinda cool. (See Gudlyf’s World….) This way, people would have to input what they saw in a generated graphic (a random string of numbers and letters) to be allowed to post their comments. Spam bots would not be able to do this. So I may look into doing that. There’s only one thing remaining: justice. Where’s the justice? This smug bastard is still contaminating the Internet with junk! 👿
EDIT: Comprehensive list of options for WordPress users to combat spam.