Spam Surge
Usually when I look at the number of spam comments that Akismet has caught on my site, it hovers around 80ish. Since yesterday, the number has grown to 550 or so. Whoa! There seems to be some effort going on that is targeting wordpress blogs. Lorelle posted that she not only has seen it on her site, but links to the wordpress forums where others are saying similar things.
The 60 million dollar question: How many spam comments in this latest surge has Akismet missed?
Only one.
[tags]spam, akismet, wordpress[/tags]
Posted by Paul Flyer on Friday, May 19th, 2006 in Blogging, Web Development
Lorelle Says:
May 20th, 2006 at 11:33 pm
I was out of Internet range the past two days and found 900 comment spams upon return to the net on my WordPress.com blog and Akismet allowed 6 to pass through the gates. That’s pretty good catching rate.
Paul Flyer Says:
May 22nd, 2006 at 8:49 am
The surge continued over the weekend. I saw another 400 spam caught by Akismet. It let a few more pass through than the first time around. But I am not complaining. I have never seen a surge like this in the history of this blog. I am happy to not have to delete 1000 spam comments.