well folks i broke down and turned on the Typekey requirement. basically it means you have to aquire a sign in identity from typekey to comment (it'll tell you how on the comment pages) to comment. this is an annoyance i didn't want to implement. a while ago i was only getting 10 or so junk comments a month. now it's around 250 every couple of days. sorry folks.. it's not that big a pain after the first time. not as big a pain as me spending fifteen minutes erasing comments.