Lately I have noticed an exponential rise in the spam comments I get on my website. Usually it was averaging about 10 to 20 a day. But now if I check after a day or so, I see about 150 spam messages caught by the Akismet plugin.
Fortunately, none of it has managed to slip through the Akismet but I am not sure if some genuine comment also got barred by Akismet. Earlier, I did notice that Ajay’s comment was always getting caught as spammed and I have always marked it as Not-Spam in the hope that the software would recognize it from now on and allow it through its filters.
But if you have, lets say 15-20 spam messages, then its easier to verify all of them before deleting it with one click. Same is not possible if you have 100s of comments caught in the spam queue.
I am not sure why there has been a sudden surge in spam comments and I have not seen much written about it in different blogs.
Have you noticed this spike as well on your blog?
May 25th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
This is exactly what I was talking about in http://binaryday.com/2008/05/17/adsense-is-killing-the-internet/
The value of a single comment has increased just too much. Before you forget u r a PR 4 now. So u will have a lot of spam.
May 25th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Sita, you were also a PR4 some time back. Did you get so much spam? I am amazed at how much the spam jumped but luckily none of it able to sneak through Akismet.
May 25th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
how did i get frustrated enough to think of that post about adsense killing the internet?
May 25th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
btw there seems to be something wrong with ajay. his comments on binaryday are also marked as spam