Well, although most of us do run some spam-combat software to keep our comment areas clean of nasty comment spam, there is also one thing you can most certainly do to improve your real comment/spam ratio into a better one. It's called a comment blacklist, and you'll know what I'm talking about if you're using WordPress.

If you're blogging via the popular Wordpress, you must have noticed that 'Options - Discussion - Comment Blacklist' thingy hiding in the settings of your blog template. Although there are a lot of really cool plugins one can use to diminish the always growing comment spam, why not use what's already there?

But, if you're as lazy as I am sometimes, you will not be happy to enter each spam word one by one, and that's where our blogger friend Ravi from Ravi's Raves lends a helping hand.

Surf to his post and copy paste the offending word list right into your Wordpress cmment blackslist, and enjoy an instant spam decrease!