In the past day or two I’ve received five comment spams, and have manually deleted them all using the clunky WordPress interface. In the long run having to do this every time would drive me mad, so it’s time to implement some kind of anti-spam solution. Browsing around at the various complicated options, it appears that this is one situation where "rolling-yer-own" is the way to go… Just the way I like it.

Stage One is now in place, and for all I know it may turn out to be all that is required to stop [automated] spams. It’s pretty basic, involving an invisible custom field in the posting form.

It will be interesting to see if it works.