Ok, so the anti-spam method in the earlier post wasn’t enough. Apparently there are some cockroaches that use spam bots to directly post comments, bypassing the UI.

The “solution” to this (I think) is described here, so we’ll try that now and see!

…and after trying that I’m still getting some automated comment spam, so I try a Blacklist

…and with some added expressions from JimSpot, all appears OK! Spamming bitches begone!