Hi Ryan,
i would like an alternative Spamprotection for the Commentfield. Akismat is expensive and criticle for german users. I use the Plugin Antispambee on my WordPress Blogs, which protects the comments very well! On my projekt i get more than 300 spam comments per day and not one gets published but the real comments are published without any effort on my part. Thats a great work and i found it is one of the best way to protect the comments from spam.
All of this works without an external service like Akismet and without JavaScript.
The Functions:
trust authorized comments
can trust comments with gravatar
classify BBcode as spam
validate the IP-Adress
use regular expression
use a locale spam database
optional: can use a public spam database
block or allow certain countries
Allow comments only in one language
Delete existing spam after X days
delete immediately according to defined spam reasons
all this is optional and can be activated by the user manually.
Is there a API for the Comment Module to implement this functions?