ArticlesThere has been a big hike in detected spam comments recently over the past couple of weeks.
Is it an increase is spam globally? Did OddThinking just find itself on a popular list used by spammers? Will the number ever drop again? I don’t pretend to know the answers to these.
At least, the spammers had a nice holiday during the (Northern Hemisphere) summer months.
Note: Thanks Spam Karma – no false negatives during this onslaught, and my skimming of the logs hasn’t found any false positives.
Comment by Aristotle Pagaltzis on May 19, 2006
We had a tidal flood a while ago at lesscode.org where the spam bodycount went from about 300 (caught during half a year) to 1,100 in about 10 days. It’s quieted down again since, but the pace is still markedly higher than before the flood, around 10-20/day, with an occasional spike to 50ish.
That’s my experience.
Comment by Alastair on May 19, 2006
Yep, I’ve been getting a ton of it lately as well.
Comment by Aristotle Pagaltzis on May 20, 2006
And now we got hosed down with nearly 300 in a single night, 3 of which slipped through. Thank goodness for comment feeds, so such crap gets noticed within hours at most.
It’s definitely getting worse.
I need to investigate solutions other than Akismet… at least something to run in addition. A blacklist for partial matches in URLs is of the essence to manage.
Comment by Alastair on May 24, 2006
Have a look at the Spam stats over at Akismet. Quite a spike recently.
And as Matt Mullenweg explains the growth in Spam should be compared against the growth in Ham also visible on that graph. The latter being a proxy for Akismet plugin takeup.
I’ve just now switched over to Akismet, seems to work fine so far.
Comment by Pozycjonowanie on December 13, 2006
Someone else below asked this already about antispam scripts.
I am getting nailed with Spam on my website mails and in our blog website – now its offline too
much spam. Is there anyway to stop this? If not, there really isn’t any point in leaving it up
and active. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for help, Keep up the good work. Greetings from Poland