200,000 Spams and Counting…
Well, looks like it only took about 3.5 weeks to bump the number of Spam responses up over 200,000.
So, I hit the 100,000 mark on May 7, the 175,000 mark on August 7, and the 200,000 mark on September 2. It looks like I’m averaging about 25,000 Spam comments per month, or over 800 spam comments per day!!! To put this in perspective, I currently have just over 9,000 legitimate, approved comments on the blog.
At the current rate we should wrap up 2008 with over 300,000 and then in 2009 we should see the 700,000 mark. Of course, I would assume that the numbers will increase, and if they do there could be well over 1,000,000 spam comments on this blog by the end of 2009.
I can’t wait until the first time some geeky Webmaster tracks down a spammer and murders him just for spamming. I will contribute to his defense fund. Furthermore, I’ll vote for any presidential candidate who promises to make Spamming a capital offense punishable by death (or at least time in a federal prison.).
Thanks to Automattic for Akismet, without which I would probably have quit blogging.
One email per post. Twenty years of this, still going. Unsubscribe whenever.
800 a day?! Holy sh*t, John – that is probably some kind of record! Wouldn’t a site look really, really weird if all comments that came in were approved, no matter what? That’s freaky to think about….
you probably should contact Guinness book of records. looks like you are a candidate :p
I still think you should complement akismet with another anti spam plugin, like math anti spam plugin or similar.