Tag - comment spam

Smart comment spam is still spam

Now this is a smart comment spam:

I am not sure that I can completely understand your comments. Would you be so kind as to expand on your reasoning a little more before I comment.

I’m not going to link to the site where this originates (or, more accurately, where it points) because I don’t want to encourage or support spam in any way. But you can see who’s doing this here:

It’s smart, of course, because you have to think for a moment before being sure that it’s actually spam. But it’s still spam, as you can see when you go to the site being promoted, and realize it’s a shell site with nothing there but Google AdWords.

Annoying!

WordPress admin panel: why is Akismet not under Comments?

wpI guess the title says it all … Akismet, which is a comment spam identification and deletion tool, is under the active menu, Manage, not under Comments.Odd.On a related note, I’m getting something like 5000 comment spam attempts a week, of which about 1 makes it through onto the site.Two things that implies:

  1. Akismet is stunningly amazingly incredibly good. There are no words.
  2. A huge amount of web traffic is spambots looking for places to implant their evil input. I wonder what percentage? 1%? 3%?
  3. Bonus implication: the success rate for comment spam is approaching zero … for blog/forum owners who know about Akismet.

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