Ryan McCue

<p>Many spammers bypass the comment form and send requests to the WordPress backend directly. This plugin creates a “nonce” field for your comment form, similar to the ones used in the administration backend.</p>
<h3>Troubleshooting</h3>
<p>RSCV not working? Use the following steps to try and solve the problem.</p>
<ol>
<li>Make sure <code><?php do_action('comment_form'); ?></code> is in your template’s comments.php, inside the <code><form></code> tags.</li>
<li>Still not working? Ask on the forums.</li>
</ol>


Really Simple Comment Validation

Adds a nonce field to the comment form to deter some comment spammers who bypass the comment form.

Pippin Williamson

<p>Modifies the Empty Spam action in WordPress to process the spam deletion in batches, allowing you to delete thousands or even hundreds of thousands of spam comments at once without killing your server.</p>
<p>Have you found a bug or have a suggestion or improvement you’d like to submit? This plugin is available on <a href="https://github.com/pippinsplugins/batch-comment-spam-deletion" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a> and pull requests are welcome!</p>


Batch Comment Spam Deletion

Modifies the Empty Spam action in WordPress to process the spam deletion in batches instead of all at once.

Really Simple Comment Validation vs Batch Comment Spam Deletion