Comment spam.

daniel on May 18th 2006

I get so much comment spam it’s not a funny little joke anymore. Seriously, I must get over 50 per day. That’s almost as much email spam as I get on my Gmail account!

This is, I think, more proof that spammers do indeed rule the internet.

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10 Responses to “Comment spam.”

  1. # Geof F. Morrison 18 May 2006 at 3:45 pm

    Try getting 692, which is what I got yesterday … on just one of my Weblogs. :)

  2. # Nicoleon 18 May 2006 at 7:25 pm

    I dont get comment spam on my blogger but all my friends do its weird.

  3. # Daveon 18 May 2006 at 7:34 pm

    You need to set up a verification of some sort. That’s what I had to do on my blog. It sucks for all us poor commenters but sometimes our existance must be defined by the unsavory members of society.

  4. # danielon 19 May 2006 at 8:15 pm

    Dave, the spam isn’t actually getting through. But it’s crazy enough… yesterday I got 350-some spam. A sudden exponential increase and I have no idea why.

    dan

  5. # Scotton 23 May 2006 at 4:31 pm

    It’s probably because you wrote a post with the word Spam in it. Spam, like the Devil, gets attracted when you use it’s name :)

    Peace

  6. # Rogeron 23 May 2006 at 7:31 pm

    I had to set up Spam Karma on my site again yesterday. So far I had made it since my last upgrade without doing it. 1,000 comments in 3 days changed my mind, though. You’re right; it is getting worse.

  7. # danielon 24 May 2006 at 9:34 am

    Scott, I was wondering about that. I had a huge increase in spam after the post about the spam. Is it co-incidence? Or do the spammers troll for blogs that complain and then punish them? :)

    Roger, you pretty much can’t have a WP blog these days without something like Spam Karma being set up. It’s a great program, though, eh?

    dan

  8. # Geof F. Morrison 24 May 2006 at 11:21 am

    Scott, I was wondering about that. I had a huge increase in spam after the post about the spam. Is it co-incidence? Or do the spammers troll for blogs that complain and then punish them? :)

    To quote some mafia movie, “It’s just business. Nothing personal.”

    Seriously, they don’t care. They’re just looking for targets of opportunity. Caring means that they would be inefficient.

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