After trying pretty hard to not have to institute anything that makes commenting harder, the spammers have forced me to do something.
I tried to install a MovableType Image Captcha component… It completely fragged my MovableType install, and I had to blow it away and reinstall. I bet this wouldn’t have happened to me if I was a good ColdFusion developer and started to use Blog.CFC.
After getting everything back up, I installed the Comment Challenge text-captcha plugin. It’s accessible, and it doesn’t, you know, completely hose my site, but I’m not sure how effective it will be. If anyone runs into any problems commenting, please drop me a line via my Contact page.
tpryan.blog 
If this comment shows up, then it worked for me. 🙂
I use Movable Type 3.3. I changed some of the scorings (and enabled everything) for the built-in SpamLookup plugins. I also installed AutoBan:
http://blog.thought-mesh.net/solidwallofcode/mt_projects/autoban.php
With these settings, I only get a couple of spam messages that aren’t junked each day.
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Unfortunately, I cannot use autoban. My webhost uses IIS instead of Apache. Good to know it’s all working though. We’ll see what it does to my spam.
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Dude. WordPress and Akismet. I never have spam problems any more.
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I am using text math operation instead of CAPTCHA, which quite easy to broke 🙂
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Ryan: I really don’t want to change blogging software. Like I said, if I did I would come over to BlogCFC.
Dmitry: That sounds very cool. What blogging tool are you using?
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