Comment by nixcraft

I run a popular blog and confirm that spam is a massive issue. I am trying to keep the independent web alive with an old-school commenting system because it helps readers and myself improve outdated posts. My domain is over 20+ years old and attracts all sorts of threats, including monthly DDoS and daily spam. Using Cloudflare solved all of these problems. Next, you need to add firewall rules inside Cloudflare WAF to trigger a captcha for /path/to/blog/wp-comments-post.php. That will not get rid of human spam tho. For that, you need to use another filtering service called Akismet.