Is Akismet Broken Or Blog Spam Way Up?
June 11th, 2007
Written By: Adam Sussman
My Blogging has been very light lately but the number of comments I’ve been having to approve have been way up. I had close to 1627 new comments spammed here the past few days with quite a few making their way past my spam filter.
This spam is not your ordinary run of the mill where comments are left randomly. Actually some of this spam almost looks so authentic that I am sure during my bulk deleting there are a few casualties of war. Who ever is hitting my Blog is targeting each post based on keywords and leaving almost topical comments. I would think some of them could pass as real comments except for the fact their URL has anchors such as “pregnant-hardcore”.
June 11th, 2007 14:35
I’ve noticed quite the increase, as well. All with links to .info domains.
June 11th, 2007 19:11
Yea, their IP’s are rotating but I keep seeing the same IP addresses even though I mark them as spam.
June 12th, 2007 10:51
I’ve been seeing a general decrease in Akismet’s performance. I am willing to guess that there is a whole system of black hats out there with Akismet-empowered blogs who are now approving spam in order to render Akismet’s auto-detection ineffective.
My $0.02.
June 12th, 2007 10:54
Brian,
Thats an interesting theory!
June 15th, 2007 04:37
My blog is 1 month old and its getting 10-20 spam comments daily, and some spam comments do manage to pass the Akismet filters. I thinking to use any other method to prevent spam.
Also, yesterday, a real comment went into the Akismet spam list and I had to revive it.