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February 24, 2005
Spam Stats - 10% real comments?
Here are some spam statistics based on my site. I have the advantage of being a moderately experienced blogger who had to restart from scratch (see this tale of woe - start at the bottom). Since I've restarted there have been 90 legitimate comments and 913 spam comments either blocked or forced through moderation by MT-Blacklist. I don't have trackbacks enabled; given what I've read I never will.
I think there's a very good case here for not having comments.
updateSince I posted this statistical tidbit this morning my comment list went from 90 to 173. Wanna guess how many of those are spam? I haven't looked yet, but since it is almost a 100% increase in the nubmer of total comments in under 12 hours I have a feeling that few of my regular readers are there. Further reason to drop comments entirely.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at February 24, 2005 10:45 AM