Wordpress User posts not showing up in Recent Comments

Which Recent Comments?  The admin widget or a front-end widget?

The admin widget just asks how many comments I want displayed?
I said

5

The widget that makes the recent comments show on my home page, I guess, is the problem.

If you are moderating your comments, there will be a lag between approval and showing up in the widget.  Caching can also play a role.

I'm confused.  To me a post is the main article to which comments can be made.  There is a difference between comments and posts.  Are you saying that someone made 10 posts, or 10 comments, and that you aren't seeing them in your recent comments?

10 comments, sorry

I think it may have been the lag issue, after all, cause it seems to be okay now.

Alright, fine, but some pricks are spamming my blog with things like "Buy fat tablets delivery FREE" and stuff,
and they aren't trapped by the moderation?

How do I stop them? It must be a bot!?

Do you have Akismet and Sabre installed?

Must I just drag Akismet into the primary widget area?
Sabre is not an available widget ! ?

What should I do?

How do I get my blog completely safe? Akismet is in my active plugin list. Is that good enough?

Some bastards have literally, F-ED it up for a short while. - spam bots.

What is Sabre? Is it a Godaddy option, or a separate thing?

Thanks

Did you configure Akismet with an API Key?  If so, that's a good start.

Sabre is a Wordpress plugin that deals with bogus user registrations.  If your site is configured to only allow comments from registered users or allows registered users to bypass moderation then you will want to protect your registration process to the extent possible.

it is only recently that my blog has got F'ed up by these bastards.

What exactly could I consider? How?

The peril of having a blog that has open comments is that people will leave comments.  Best you can do is make it difficult to do via captchas, registrations, and anti-spam checks.  But you will never stop 100% of the attacks.

So, a good start is Sabre?

What about the other ones Wordpress suggests, or is Sabre it?

Will I need to train it?

Sabre or WangGuard are my choices to protect against bogus registrations which can lead to comment or post spam.

What options should
I check in the Sabre control panel?

I don't have it installed in front of me at the moment.  I usually just use the registration captcha for Sabre. For more advanced protection, I use WangGuard.

WangGuard isn't in the WP plugins list.

You fail at searching :)

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wangguard/

It says my Wangguard API key is invalid.
How do I correct this?

I already paid for Akismet and it sucks. What should I do?
It says you don't need to pay for WGuard

Talk to Wang Guard support.  I have no idea why it would say the API key is invalid if you registered for an account there.