Akismet has been doing the job for quite some time. They finally added a “delete comment spam on messages older than 30 days” option to make my job even easier. All in all, the basic WordPress anti-comment spam protection seems to get the job done. If it wasn’t for that, I’d be hand editing thousands of messages a day. What a waste of time that would be.

Comment spammers never quit. I guess they must still be getting some links that way, so it’s doubtful you’ll ever see an end to that type of action. But at least you can mostly automate the job of removing the comments, since the spammers have undoubtedly been automated the whole time.

If you haven’t installed Askismet for some reason (I think it’s the default), make sure to do so. It will make you life just a little easier. You can spend more of your time on writing posts and less on weeding the comment garden.