Lately, I've noticed that the spam-to-content ratio of comments on my blog has risen to about 20:1, which is by far the worst it's ever been. I've obviously ended up on some spam-generation service's site list, which is really a shame.
As a result, I've made two changes to the settings for comments. I've turned on comment moderation, and I've introduced the often-annoying word-verification feature. I expect the latter change will make more of a difference than the former, but we'll see. I apologize for the hassle to the real commenters out there, but to be honest you're such a rare creature anymore that I doubt anyone will feel much pain. And if it stops me having to delete dozens of spam comments every week, it'll be worth it.
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It's gone nuts for me as well Matt. Google needs to do something about it. Unfortunately I don't think they are necessarily mechanical robots, but rather asian spammers with ready access to cheap, partially literate labour.
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