New anti-spam technique implemented (mods take note)

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I'm trying different ways to shut down this ridiculous spam flood. The first thing I'm trying is that I've implemented Akismet to automatically check for known spam in comments. Comments are now sent to Akismet before being posted, and are only supposed to be posted if they are not known spam.

I've set it to only check posts where the user has less than 5 posts, so it won't check us all.

Noticed spam is supposed to go to the moderation queue. Let us see if it works... without slowing down posting too much.

It's $5/month so if it doesn't really work, we'll have to remove it and try something else. If it does work, the cost of filling the tip mug will go up $5.

If it does work, we can shut off moderation of a user's first post.