I am so sick of spam. Yeah, email spam is bad, but what is worse? Blog spam. Trackback spam. Pingback spam. UGH!!!
I just checked akismet on my wordpress install and it is saying I have over 18,000 pieces of spam.
Akismet isn’t the problem, the problem is with the few pieces that akismet doesn’t catch. They start to add up.
I am just curious if anybody else if having a problem with blog spam the way I am?
I have been getting swarmed with an unusual amount of comment spam today. I don’t know who I pissed off, or who got my website and put it in some list to sell Viagra, but akismet has been saving me a lot of hassle today.
Does anyone know how this mass spamming happens? I went from about 5 comment spams a day, to over 200 today alone. Are there spam botnets for wordpress? I am only curious because I had a few slip through the cracks today. It was okay today because I was around to check it every now and again, keeping them off the site. How can I strengthen my anti-spam plugins?
Comments, not spam, are welcome on solving this problem.
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Jul 08
Comment spam losing grip to trackback spam
I have never seen this happen before on my blog, curious if others have seen something like this on theirs.