Simon’s Blog

The problem of blog comment spam continues to increase. I’ve now had around a quarter of a million spam comments posted to this blog since I started it; with new spam comments currently coming in at the rate of thousands per day. Almost all are automatically flagged by my spam filters; only tens are [...]

Of course, with anti-spam systems like Akismet, comment spam on blogs doesn’t really work. Yes, the occasional spam message makes it through, but the number of spam comments the system misses is pretty small.
That doesn’t stop the comment spammers trying though. I just did a quick calculation for this blog on the number [...]