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A little side note on blog comment spam - splog - that’s backed up by the visual below:

Over 16,600 comments are waiting to be approved! Each one was also announced in an email to the admin account for the blog, which kinda clogs up the mail server side of things.

Robots are posting now at the rate of almost 500 comments per day, or 20 comments per hour, which is one every 3 minutes on average. For example, in the admin section for comments here, there are 22 pages of 20 comments each for Dec. 20, which totals to 440 comments that were submitted today.

The streak began with some junk posts in 2007, including a lovely comment starting with “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet…”. But, by mid-2008 they were all just lists of random terms linking to sites whose purposes are lost… all dead links as the spammers’ pages were taken down.

We’ll never know what “trinidad sunday punch” or “campfire discussion board” linked to. And the new links are too many to check out, since each of the 440 posts today has exactly 20 lines with one link each… 8,800 links. If this were to be done in a workday, that would be 1,100 links clicked per hour, or faster than one every four seconds. It doesn’t seem that any of them had HD movies or video in their message, and they just are getting out of control.

All that is about to change.

After upgrading some software to deal with comment spam, it should be a bit different. Be sure that your well-thought comment has a chance to show here… once the backlog is dealt with!