How to prevent comment spam on personal blog?

Question

I&rsquo;m trying to build my own comment system on my personal blog. Currently the backend is Google App Script(but moving to a Flask backend!), but I&rsquo;m getting a lot of comment spam!Are there any open-source comment spam protection like Akismet!

DamonHD · Accepted Answer

I have essentially never[0] had open comments on any of my own[1] sites since ~1995[2] since it is too much work to prevent and always has been.
[0] For a brief interval I did try.
[1] With CAPTCHAs and other complex rules such as manually approving new users, preventing insertion of links within the first few posts, etc, and multiple attentive moderators, sites that I have helped moderate/admin have managed to keep SPAM count low.
[2] One such site page: https://www.exnet.com/springboard.html

solardev · Answer

Put it on a Cloudflare free plan or just add Disqus?