One of the many things in society that never ceases to puzzle me is spam. The technological variety, though the stuff in the can puzzles me as well. My spam volume has increased dramatically in the past few months. I used to glance over my spam folders before I deleted and saved misguided messages, plucking them out of the depths and back into my inbox. Now, forget it. And our blogs have started to get spam. First the girls’ blogspots did, so I had to activate comment verification which is annoying, I know. Now this blog gets spam. Akismet through WordPress does a good job of finding it, but every once in a while it incorrectly labels one of your comments. Sorry about that. In order to find the wheat in the chaff I have to glance through my list every few days. Today we had no less than 25 spam messages about one weight loss drug. Does someone out there think I’m fat? With the billions of dollars in lost productivity yearly (I read this number somewhere…) you’d think someone would figure out how to end spam. It’s a quality of life issue, I think it would be a great campaign platform for some party.
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Its really a pain isn’t it? I have first time commenters moderated on my wordpress and have recently got a gmail address which a few months down the line still has no spam.
Recently I wrote a post to say that “filthy sp@m” was the reason I had to close my blog comments after a few days. Then, all of a sudden, that post was immediately attacked by the worst spam ever! I was so suprised that the words seemed to attract even more spam. I deleted the post and went back to having the original amount of annyoing spam. Weird.
I, too, wish there was an answer. I find it always makes me nervous that there is something really bad in the comments of my blog. I use MT, and it doesn’t have the word verification option. Not sure what to do.
BTW, I recently started visiting here regularly.
there is another spam blocker for wordpress (i’ve forgotten what it’s called) that will do even better than akismet. Also don’t forget to add the words to your wordlist for varification.