The current situation with comments on apocryph.org is untenable. Before I upgraded to Drupal 6 I used the Akismet module to catch comment spam, which meant I could safely allow anyone to post comments without authentication or approval, with reasonable confidence that akismet would catch the spam before it got posted.

That worked great, but the Akismet module hasn’t been ported to Drupal 6, and I’m beginning to think it’s not maintained anymore since the dev snapshot hasn’t been updated since September. Right now I have comments enabled but they go to the approval queue, which I just spent half an hour cleaning out due to the torrent of spam comments various spambots keep posting.

I know there are hosted comment solutions with AJAX goodness and spam filtering, but I really prefer to host my own, plus I must be able to keep the existing comments already posted through Drupal. Oh, what to do!