Jerry is right, it is an ongoing battle to fight spam on any blog. And anti-spam settings walk a fine line between allowing a flood of unwanted comments and blocking a few legitimate ones. Unfortunately, the way most plugins work, once a reader's comment is spammed that IP address is more likely to be spammed again on other sites across the network.

With that said, every Tripawds blogger has the option of configuring their own anti-spam settings so it is very difficult for us to control users' posts that are getting spammed or investigate why the might be without links to the blogs in question.

By default, first posts by any user on any Tripawds blog will be held for moderation. Subsequent comments from the same user will be allowed. But this goes for each and every site here in the Tripawds community.

If you fear a comment has been spammed on a blog, consider sending a PM to the member, or message us with a link to the blog and we can look into it.

All Tripawds Blogs are protected by Akismet, the most popular and powerful anti-spam WordPress plugin which requires/allows no configuration, and by Cookies for Comments which stops the majority of comments from non-human spambots. Tripawds Supporter Blogs (like Fang's, thank you) get additional protection via WP-SpamFree which includes various configuration options from the Settings tab in your dashboard.

To answer your question about what you can do to keep comments from being spammed, the first thing would be to not include links, at least not in your first comment and never more than two. Comments with only a couple words can often be misidentified as spam too.

Hope this helps!