So I’ve been falling victim to the comment spammers, and I finally decided to try looking into some plugins. I looked on the the Nucleus plugin website, and looked at a few of the options. I tried the Expiring Comments plugin first, but it either didn’t work or I installed it wrong. Then I started looking at some of the others, and somehow ended up in the forums at this post. I tried the plugin mentioned, and so far (over the weekend), no spam. It looks like the next version of Nucleus will have some better built in tools, and some plugins that should be a step up in terms of moderation and configuration, but for now I’m just happy to be through the weekend without the normal amount of spam.