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Posted on May 01, 2009 - 3:30pm by John P. in Wordpress
Dammit! Very few things actually infuriate me more than spammers. That is because Spammers are thieves! There is no difference between a spammer, and someone who would go around stealing pennies from everyone they can find. The logic is exactly the same too, “well, if I only steal from them a little, they won’t notice – but if I do it from a lot of people, I’ll get rich!”
I swear to God, I think the crime for spamming should be death by firing squad. And their entire families should be branded with a scarlet letter and humiliated. And their bodies should be burned until nothing remains but ash. Then, the ashes should be put in a plastic baggie which is also topped off with cow manure and a small chunk of lead. The bags should be loaded on a cargo ship crossing the ocean, and then dropped in when the boat is directly above the Mariana Trench.
Here, let me rank criminals for you:
I’ve been writing about Spam problems for years now:
Yet this blog alone continues to average around 600+ SPAMs per day. That’s right, we’re way over 300,000 spams caught just by Akismet alone. But I’ve got other mechanisms in place to prevent spam as well which easily trap half of it or more before Akismet ever sees it.
So, what is happening is, every time a Spammer or their robot stops by, they put load on my server – eating into the responsiveness that YOU my dear reader receive, and simultaneously, they cause me to have to keep upgrading my server to handle more and more load which wouldn’t be so necessary if they didn’t exist.
Think of Spammers like this… Lets say you were a farmer and you had a field of corn. Now imagine that someone driving down the road sees your crop and says, “Mmmm. That looks delicious! I think I’ll stop and take a few!” Then, imagine that 600 people per DAY all do the same thing! These thieves are eating you out of house and home and you have to plant more and more fields in order to produce the same exact output because of the dwindling efficiency!
So I just wonder why more people don’t see this as a problem and put an end to it. If you were that farmer, I guarantee that after a little while you’d be sitting out there with a shotgun waiting to shoot someone.
Oh, and if you’re wondering what brought all this up for me today, it’s just another spammer. Someone stopped by and left a string of junk comments on the blog, obviously only to get their URL listed on my top commenters list.
yes .i hate also spammers.i think this is a cool list criminals which can be dangerous for you..
1. Child Molesters
2. Rapists
3. Spammers
4. Murders
5. Politicians
but spammers is more dangerous from it.really nice post.
It’s quite fitting that you spammed the post that identified you as a spammer.
I feel IP blockage coming!
Domain blockage… engaged.
In my blog, I usually get about 30 flagged posts by Askimet per day. I usually go threw them real fast just to make sure no one was innocently caught up there as spam. But… If I had to take care of 600+ per day like you do, I’d probably wouldn’t even bother and just delete them all.
You need to checkout the plugin which does not let a spammer even browse your blog. Just enter the ip you want to block and the message you want to show them.
With Akismet and all of the other tools, why do they keep trying? They can’t think they are getting away with something as stupid as “Great Post!” for comments? With all the great tools for email spam, nothing gets through and yet my spam folder is full. I just don’t get how these people think?
You would think they would get the hint by now!
Where would we be without Akismet and other plugins like that! I would find it very hard to contribute to the blogs I have if spam wasn’t caught. Thanks for posting the ip of the spammer John, that’s another one added to the list hehe. And how ironic that their site was an seo site! They obviously don’t know much about seo if that’s how they conduct their business. My busiest blog is not that busy, gets about 200 unique per day and this is the Akismet stats for it: 940 spams caught, 32 legitimate comments, and an overall accuracy rate of 99.177%. Hail hail Akismet! :)
Visit http://www.mollom.com, register, then download the wordpress plugin and your spam problems will be a thing of the past.. I promise! :)
My blog that I just logged off on had over 2,000 comments on it by the same guy. This is really so annoying. I thought I was the only one that had this problem.
Hey,
Who knows if you’ll ever see this comment.
Was just wondering, why you’ve never installed a CAPTCHA to help keep the spammers down?
Do you have anything against CAPTCHA, do you find it doesn’t work well.
Just curious.
I had one at one point, but I found that it basically cut even the legitimate comments down by like 95%. No one wants to go through a Capcha. Even I hate them. So I don’t subject people to them.
John P.