I’m trying to troubleshoot an issue with the blog getting thousands of spam comments in moderation every week; currently I’ve turned off commenting on older posts. I was hoping WP-reCAPTCHA would help block the traffic. It apparently did not.

If anyone is interested, this isn’t a new problem, it just seem gradual spamming overtime has built up to this level. The askimet plugin is working fine, but I’d prefer this volume of spam not have to go through the database at all. If anyone has had experience with this and has advice let me know.