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My last battle with comment spam ended with a victory for the spambots. Even though they left no URL or email, they were programmed to happily post away, with no possible method of financial gain for their creators whatsoever. This bypassed my anti-linking and anti-keyword filter that "productive" spambots get caught in. Lately the number of idiot spambots has increased to the point of requiring action, so today I wrote a simple image verification routine to further complicate the comment posting procedure. Hopefully this will catch the idiot spambots and once again return peace to the land of comments. If not, my only remaining option is the dreaded login requirement, which I desperately hope will not be necessary.