Alright, after reading Oilman’s post about his success with the WordPress Plugin Akismet, I figured I would test it out. I closed off comments a while back as I was sick of monitoring the blog spam. I had held off using Akismet because I thought it wouldn’t work / would take a bunch of tweaking to work properly. I have now installed it and comments are back on! Akismet was pretty easy to get going (just get an API from a Wordpress.com account) and enter it into the plugin on the control panel.