Andy Beard - Internet Business Systems Discussion - Latest Comments in Is Akismet a Spam Magnet? Plus a little on Trackbacks

Re: Is Akismet a Spam Magnet? Plus a little on Trackbacks

Bret — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:08:48 -0000

Those are some scary spam numbers! My blog has very low traffic and has been around since January of this year. Lately spam has started to pick up and now I average about 10 spam comments a day. Akismet catches them all so all I had to do is log in and do a quick review and press delete. Not sure what I would do if I got some of the spam numbers mentioned in this post and in Paul's comment. I hate those blasted spam bots.

Re: Is Akismet a Spam Magnet? Plus a little on Trackbacks

Bret — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:08:48 -0000

Re: Is Akismet a Spam Magnet? Plus a little on Trackbacks

Paul OFlaherty — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 03:00:24 -0000

Hey Andy, I think a lot the reason my domain gets hit with so much spam is not just the age.

For a long while I ran a Blog and Podcast Directory from the OFlaherty.dk domain (in a subdomain) while was very heavily trafficed.

It was a personal project and I ended up having to shut it down after it simply became too much work to moderate (even with 3 of us working on it daily).

That site is still listed widely and linked to widly on the web. There are also many dead blogs with the old Blog Resource button still in their sidebar.

Even though I killed the site I put up a WordPress installation so I could let people know what happend.

I think many spam bots find my blogs through that and other sites linking in.

Now, that's not all of it. My spam numbers have been increasing steadily fro the past year or more and it got to around the 1000 a day mark a couple of weeks ago.

I emptied my spam at around 2am on Saturday morning, and there's only 1685 as of 8am Monday morning. That's just the past 30 hours!

Thankfully akismet catches most of it and out of the same 1685 there were only 7 spams it asked me to moderate, and 1 false negative.