I read with interest Mark Pilgrim’s highly pess­im­istic, but well thought out, art­icle on com­ment spam yes­ter­day. Whilst I find that I can­not dis­agree in prin­cipal with most things Mark says, I some­how feel that things aren’t quite at the throw­ing in the towel stage. On the WordPress developer list we have been dis­cuss­ing tac­tics which Mark hasn’t touched upon but which could be employed to neg­ate the value (increased page rank) of com­ment spam­ming. Dou­gal sums things up nicely in the art­icle he wrote over at the WordPress Devel­op­ment Blog