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I have updated my plugin Auto-Close Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks to include one main option, viz. the ability to keep certain posts open.
You can set it for Comments and Pingbacks/Trackbacks separately. You need to enter a comma-separated list of Post IDs that you want to keep open for discussion.
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From my experience, one thing that most spammers do is try to post comments, pingbacks or trackbacks on your extremely old posts.
If you are not monitoring the comments, pingbacks or trackbacks on your site properly, you will not even realize that these have been posted.
Many a times, you would not want anyone to post a [...]

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Overview:
Automatically close comments, pingbacks and trackbacks on your blog. This helps reduce the amount of spam aimed at old posts.
Features:

Can be configured via WP-Admin
Choose to run it automatically or manually

Requirements:

WordPress 1.5 or above

Installing

Download Auto-Close Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks.
Extract the contents of autoclose.zip to wp-content/plugins/ folder. You should get [...]

I have just released the Bad Behavior Stats plugin v2.1
Updates since the last release.

Link to Bad Behavior homepage fixed
Title attributes added to the BBStats and Bad Behavior Links
New variable %totalcount% added for displaying total number of access attempts if verbose logging is enabled.
Now, admin functions and wp-dash functions are only declared if on the admin [...]

I have just released the Bad Behavior Stats plugin v2.0
Updates since the last release.

Plugin now works with Bad Behavior 1.x and 2.x
Only counts the number of blocked attempts.
Number of blocked attempts can now be viewed under Options >> BB Stats as well.
Few miscellaneous fixes

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Came across this nice article on avoiding registration on free websites, thereby reducing SPAM.
You can do this using BugMeNot.
Read the full article.

Update: This tutorial is now superceded by A Comprehensive Guide to Protecting Your Blog from Spam.
Comment spam is something every blogger is really really afraid of. Over the past two years that I have been using WordPress this is one problem that I have faced on and off.
I realized that the amount of spam I [...]

Have just released the latest version of my Bad Behavior Stats plugin viz. v1.6.
It is now compatible with Bad Behavior 1.2.
It now counts both 403 and 412 errors.
Read more and download the plugin>>