Oh, use THOSE tools
There’s something to be said for using the tools available to you. Over the past week or so, I’ve started getting a lot of spam comments, including 40-45 on a day that no one actually visited the site. Which is funny to me, since this isn’t a huge popular site with trillions of unique visitors.
Until today, I’d just been letting the comments come in and marking them as spam manually. Eventually this got irritating, but whatcha gonna do? Then about 5 seconds of research on Google this morning showed me how to start setting up filters. Problem (mostly) solved.
I could’ve done this at any point over the past week. The tools were there for me all along. I just wasn’t using them.