I've been comment spammed more and more lately too, but I'm not so sure I like the solution of CAPTCHA images to deter the spammers.  Why?  Because they deter us, the comment providers, too!  I groan every time I need to decipher one of those things, just to say “Nice Post!”

Now, I get about 10 spam comments a week, admittedly, not that many.  But, I just go and delete them, as soon as I'm notified that I have a new comment for “Holdem Poker” or whatever.  I feel like if I put CAPTCHA puzzles on my blog, I'd just be passing the buck, er the effort, to my readers.

There's got to be a better way.  I've heard of people using Blacklists or other intelligent filtering technologies, which are the real solution, IMO. 

The real reason you see so much CAPTCHA on blogs?  It's cool technology, and we love to play around with cool technology.. But is it the best solution for filtering out comment spam, I don't think so.

-B