I swear, comment spam is the new email spam, or something. I may get 50 email spams a day, but luckily Gmail is awesome at catching them and I only ever have to manually flag a few a week. However, comment spam is on the rise at all of my blogs. Akismet has caught 296 for me on this blog alone, just since last fall when I migrated here from Blogger. While Akismet does most of the heavy lifting, I still get a few comments a day that I have to manually flag as spam. It’s not a large investment of time, but I resent it. For one thing, these comment spammers are so relentlessly stupid! I get very low traffic on this site, so they’re really just wasting their time by spamming my comments. And, as I said, I remove all spam pretty quickly, so even the limited exposure they can get is very short-lived. And yet they persist…
I suppose my next option is to enable some kind of captcha or other device that would root out some of the spambots that apparently like my server. What a drag and a hassle. Spammers of the world, to you I say:
