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Spammy Spam And The Spammers That Spam

Started by webomatica · 10 months ago

So I'm already nearing 2,000 trapped spam comments (I'm at 1,900 something), courtesy of Akismet (the greatest plug in ever). Here's a nice graph of the ongoing spam wars courtesy of Akismet itself (which I found via Subtraction and Rexblog). ... Continue reading »

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  • Zigire

    2 years ago

    So far, for me, Akismet has caught 204 spammy comments ;)

    So I'm some way off your total... makes a change!
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  • webomatica

    2 years ago

    Don't worry now that you have tempted the spams I'm sure they will find your blog... :)
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  • Joy

    2 years ago

    The spam caught by Akismet on my personal blog (http://heartfulls.com ... sorry, just had to plug ;) ) is 2,930. That's what Akismet says, anyway. Yeah, I understand the gratification... I thought I was the only person that took spam as a sign that my blog is findable. :)
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  • Podophile

    2 years ago

    Check out the Bad Behavior plug-in. It stops many spambots before they get to your site.

    http://www.homelandstupidity.us/software/bad-be...

    I started 2 blogs last summer. One has Bad Behavior installed and one doesn't. Even though the one with Bad Behavior gets 10 times the traffic, Akismet has had to block less than half the amount of spam versus the blog without Bad Behavior. 2100 vs. 5000. Pretty darned impressive.
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  • webomatica

    2 years ago

    Hmmm I'm thinking bad behavior might have to be fired up in addition to akismet. I noticed the big upsurge after I installed WordPress 2.1.

    Joy, I guess in the absence of actual visitors, the spam man will do... or maybe writing about spam is the ticket!
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