I’m getting a wack-load of comment spam today. Hopefully none is slipping through to the site because i moderate, but this is annoying.
Usually the Akismet service deletes almost all comment spam before I even see it, but today it appears to be taking a long coffee break.
The Akismet website says nothing about being down, and the spam zeitgeist is still up and claiming that 14,326,525 spams have been viciously murdered so far today … but I’m getting way more spam.
Any clues?
It could be because your site isn’t connecting with Akismet, for some reason. I’ve had that happen before.
And I can’t seem to find the numbers you’re seeing. I see 2,392,829 in the stuff at the top at the time of writing this, and about 20,000,000 in the orange on the bottom. One of them just ain’t right.
ever heard of image verification?
It was, I’m very sorry for that.
No problem, Matt.
Thanks for letting me know, and (more importantly) thanks for a *free* service that lets bloggers keep comments on their blogs without getting way too much spam.