It’s about 160 spam comments per day across the blogs. These are all caught by Akismet Anti-Spam, so they don’t really bother me, but I was just curious.
(No, really!)
From what I can see, the spam seems to be coming in waves — a few dozen Russian-language spams, and then a few dozen from Hairstyles VIP, and then several dozens that seems to be crypto scammers, and so on.
People are presumably paying for these bot spam campaigns, but since they’re all caught by Akismet, it doesn’t look like they’re getting their money’s worth? Possibly?
Anyway, the moral here is: It’s impossible to run a WordPress site (with comments enabled) without using Akismet.
I was looking at the Wordpress statistics just now, and I saw that an old, obscure post had suddenly gotten popular. Looking at the details, all the hits are from different IP addresses, and all the visitors come via Google! Over a 15 minute period! So that's obviously not real…
I run a couple of blogs, and across them, I get about 50 spam comments per day. Here's a sampling: Fortunately, Wordpress offers something called "Akismet Antispam" which takes care of all this noise. It lets a spam message through about once every two months, and I think I've seen…
Nobody likes spam. So to avoid spam they either inflict pain on others, like with challenge/response systems that send endless challenges to me since "I" have sent them spam (From headers are so hard to fake? (I know this guy who automatically responds to all challenge/response systems (evil, but understandable))),…
