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.
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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