First order of business is the sheer amount of comment spam that you get by just having Wordpress. I recently gave up on trying to use Wordpress’ built in moderation and just dumped the comment table where any comments were marked ‘spam’ or were awaiting my approval.
DELETE FROM `wp_comments` WHERE comment_approved = 'spam' Deleted rows: 4886 (Query took 3.3226 sec) DELETE FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_approved =0 Deleted rows: 1895 (Query took 0.2558 sec)
So if you did give me a comment and never was approved, I’m sorry.