I don't know which is the greater struggle: keeping spammers, scammers, and hackers off my site, or convincing all the block lists and filters that my site isn't a spammer, scammer, or hacker. (Used to be the former, but the latter is becoming all too common.)
@gpfjeff By "site", you mean the comment system?
Have you looked at pubkey based comment systems? Spam drives account based interaction toward centralization - via the mechanism you are experiencing.
Here is a comment system based on the Nostr protocol (low barrier to entry for newbies):
https://github.com/carlitoplatanito/disgus
@customdesigned Sorry for the late reply. While that link looks interesting, I really think very few of my readers are going to go through the trouble of generating key pairs for authentication to a comment system on any site, let alone mine. (Sure, I have a geekier audience, but that's a lot of hoops to jump through to say, "You misspelled a word in the second panel".) My current spam-blocking strategy works well enough. I'm mostly venting...
