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I have been running a personal blog for many years- arguably since about 1997. I think I switched to WordPress in 2005 after previously managing with a static HTML page and then a PHPNuke website. I started getting comment ‘spam’ shortly after I started using WordPress: like email spam, spam comments are irritating messages […] June 6th, 2015 | Tags: akismet, bad behavior, big numbers, blogging, spam | Category: Geek Miscellany, Site news | Leave a comment You may notice that the “furballs coughed up… #### today alone!” number in the header of this blog seems oddly inflated. Your observation would be correct: I suspect no more than a couple hundred humans visit this site in a given day. However, the spam robots visit in vast, unending waves. […] January 15th, 2013 | Tags: akismet, bad behavior, comment spam, economics, machine stupidity, morons, spam, waste, Wordpress | Category: Rants, Site news | 3 comments I run a simple little blog here. I don’t make any money off of my site even, although I’m not adverse to doing so as long as it isn’t obtrusive. I don’t sell anything, nor do accept submissions other than comments. The posts here are my own: they aren’t scraped, syndicated from, or re-posted […] January 29th, 2011 | Tags: akismet, anti-spam, bad behavior, blog registration, blog security, comment spam, dumb, prevent registration spam, recaptcha, registration spam, security, spam, spam karma, users, Wordpress, wordpress security, wordpress tips | Category: Rants, Site news | One comment Running a public website of any kind means having to deal with various unwanted guests. This blog, for example, receives around 300 spam comment posts a day, and any number of attempts to break in. […] |
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