I’m trying to build my own comment system on my personal blog. Currently the backend is Google App Script(but moving to a Flask backend!), but I’m getting a lot of comment spam!<p>Are there any open-source comment spam protection like Akismet!
I have essentially never[0] had open comments on any of my own[1] sites since ~1995[2] since it is too much work to prevent and always has been.<p>[0] For a brief interval I did try.<p>[1] With CAPTCHAs and other complex rules such as manually approving new users, preventing insertion of links within the first few posts, etc, and multiple attentive moderators, sites that I have helped moderate/admin have managed to keep SPAM count low.<p>[2] One such site page: <a href="https://www.exnet.com/springboard.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.exnet.com/springboard.html</a>