Spam, spam, comments and spam
Apr 21st, 2008 by lavonardo
The ratio of proper comments to spam is frighteningly low.
Either preserved pork has really increased in number lately, or the old version of this blog escaped on account of some bad recon.
Downside in using popular software like WordPress is that all spam robots will recognize your blog as WordPress blog and as a result, they know exactly what needs to be sent for comments.
At least on my blog, spam seems to concentrate on couple static pages (guestbook to be more precise), so whenever I get comments for moderation into those pages, I never read e-mails about them. Instead I go through all those comments once a week or so and mark them as spam. All in all situation is good enough that I haven’t bothered to activate Akismet (then again I moderate all comments from new readers in my blog).
I figured that introducing Akismet is easier than hand-moderating the comments, and thus far the tool has been reliable - I’ve seen one false positive (had to rescue a valid comment manually) and false negatives usually end up in the check these-queue. I think just a single spam entry made it through to the comments. Then again, the comments are not that numerous that checking them would entail too much work.