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Over the past nine days, I have received 455 spam comments on my blog. That’s more than 50 per day. These “comments” are just huge long lists of links to porn sites or prescription drug sites or the like. Luckily my blog is set so that comments have to be approved by me before they can be posted, so none of them actually made it through. But for two days, until I had the bright idea to install the Akismet filter, I had to wade through piles of comments to weed out the spam.
So. If you are a friend or a real live non-robot non-spamming stranger and you plan to leave me a comment, do make sure that you don’t include more than one or two links or your comment may be filtered out. And with the volume I’m getting, I don’t have time to sift through them all to check for legitimate comments that might have been caught.
That is all. Thank you.
Akismet rocks. Yet one more wonderful reason to choose WordPress.
I’m kind of jealous. I don’t get very many comments on my blog. 455 sounds like you’re popular even if it is just spam. There is a certain combination of words, that I won’t use here, that attract the same spam comment every time. I’ve figured it out now and I avoid them.
And actually the words I don’t use anymore are vaguely related to your previous blog post…interesting.