For the past few days I’ve been experiencing very high volume of spam comments. It’s about 500 per day, more or less — at least for the last 4 days! I wonder why there is a sudden jump in the volume of spam comments. Askimet told me that it has caught more than 10,000 comments since I started this blog in March 2006. I guess it’s because my blog has some page-rank (it was 4, then 3 untill now after 1and1 suspended my account) so spammers are attracted like moths and the lightsource.
If you wonder, most of the comments are about pornography, buying drugs online, gambling. Suddenly I feel like I’m a P.i.m.p. (remember that 50 cents song?) who constantly needs to purchase cheap drugs while playing pokers with other people. Oh wait, and those spammers they know that I suffer impotency too since they keep offering me cheap cialis or viagra. Humh, thanks but no thanks.
Askimet’s been wonderful. It stopped most spam comments and once in a while do I receive an entry that got through. The entries that Askimet misses are usually too short or the words used are random enough to fool the pattern matching engine. In the future, I may find (or write) an add-on to the commenting system to do some captcha and stop those spammers from eating my lunch.
Oh…sigh… people …people…
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Hm, I cant agree with you in this particular case.