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Last February, on Super Bowl Sunday we had a Milestone around here. We hit and soon passed 100,000 Spam Comments blocked by Akismet.
In the short post marking the occasion, I mentioned a fellow blogger who had lamented about NOT getting any spam. I assured her that it was nothing to worry about, they would soon start their attack.
In the last 8 months, Spammers had been consistent enough and as of today we are at 120,223 spam comments blocked.
BUT…
For the past week, I have only been averaging 4-5 spam comments per day. What’s up with that? It WAS 40-50 minimum daily, and often times there were multiple pages of spam a day. Not that I’m complaining, but what is going on? Did I do something to offend them (I hope) or did they lose my URL (I wish). Maybe it was something else that I’m not aware of.
Some thoughts and possibilities:
- I haven’t been posting as regularly as I’d like, there are days that I miss posting for various reasons (read excuses) and they lost interest.
- I activated the No Index feature to stop Google indexing my feeds on FeedBurner to stop Scrapers (I have since deactivated it because I lost over 100 Subscribers and they are more important than the bad guys). Could the spammers be using the same back door?
- Maybe the comment spammers run in cycles. It seems that even though they have slowed their efforts here, they have Picked Up on the MCBS Blog. I’m getting at least a page (50) spammers over there every day.
- Has Akismet finally found a way to actually block comment spam so we can’t even see it? I am not sure if I’d like that, too many Real comments get caught as spam. I want to have the option of make a determination myself.
As I said, I’m not complaining! I’m just curious as to the reason for the sudden drop off of comment spam. Have you ever noticed such a phenomenon? Any other ideas? Maybe we can find a way to beat them once and for all (yeah, right)!
