Earlier when I used to check my Akismet spam to clear all the crap and to approve any genuine comments that got caught up some way – I used to see that most of the comment spam was usually composed of lots of links to websites that sold drugs and medicine, sex toys, porn, etc. On being back after 21 days of inactivity, when I checked my Akismet comment spam I was shocked to notice something that I had never noticed before – Racist Comments! Anyone reading this post should understand nicely - Blogging and Racism don’t go Together.

What is SPAM?
From the wikipedia, Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages. Spam in blogs (also called simply blog spam or comment spam) is a form of spamdexing.
It is done by automatically posting random comments or promoting commercial services to blogs, wikis, guestbooks, or other publicly accessible online [...]

What is Comment Moderation?
Comment moderation is a feature offered by most of the blogging platforms that allows you to prevent comments from appearing on your site without your express approval.
What do many bloggers think?
I know many bloggers around (I mean bloggers…) who almost consider enabling comment moderation, a principle. I talked to a few [...]