fighting comment spam via .htaccess

i’m trying this snippet in my .htaccess file

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-comments-post\.php*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*yourdomain.com.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule (.*) http://%{REMOTE_ADDR}/$ [R=301,L]

this detects when a POST is being made … checks the post destination … checks if the referrer is in your domain or if no referrer (
change yourdomain.com to your domain.xxx) …
sends the spam-bot back to its originating server’s ip address.

lets see if it works

source: https://codex.wordpress.org/Combating_Comment_Spam/Denying_Access

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