Over the years, this site has had 8683 published comments. The thing that’s sad? The automatically incremented comment ID number in the database for this site is 22887. Which means I’ve had 14,204 spam, duplicate, or otherwise deleted comments (and I generally pretty much let anything get published, unless it’s spam or a duplicate). That means for every 1.6 spam comments, I get a regular comment.
Luckily, MovableType 3.2’s spam blocking settings sends the bulk majority of the comments either to the junk folder or sets them to unpublished status, so they’re not appearing on my site and they’re not sapping server resources on rebuilds, but it’s still annoying (and I can’t install mod_sec or other things like that, as they’ve caused some issues in the past and have slowed things down too much).
Update on 4/9: 8780 comments published, 26,630 total, so 17,850 spam (big attack last night — all dumped into the junk folder, as they were all that Mike Furir spam and I had that stuff blocked a long time ago during the first wave of attacks.
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Dude, I have 2,897 comments and my ID is up to 64,917 do the math 🙂
I can beat both those percentages. 20 comments, last one was id #3,545. But I think my blacklist is finally set to pick up most of ’em.
Nevermind about my griping, then 😉
Speaking of comment spam, do you know where you can get some \/1agra or Cia1is? Better yet, are you interested in hearing about a Hoodia testimonial or some lost Nigerian money?
Hehe…I remember I used to have an autoresponse on an old e-mail address that was on a few Web sites out there that folks occassionally e-mailed me on, but the bulk majority of it was spam (and LOTS of it). I remember putting this in that response (as well as some other stuff):
“I’m not checking this e-mail account anymore, and the message you sent me will be deleted. If I actually listened to the e-mail that came through this address, I need a longer penis, pills to make it erect for 3 or 4 days, a great deal of prescription medications, a bunch of ink cartridges (and kits to refill them), a payday loan, health insurance, a Costa Rica home, a credit card merchant account, a new job and resume, and increased energy and endurance. Oh, and I need to confirm my eBay, Citibank and PayPal accounts, need to change my cursor, need to get a 3D aquarium screen saver, need to get a Macy’s, Toys R Us, and Victoria’s Secret gift card, I need to visit Erica’s WebCam, and need to do better with my search engine marketing.”
And that was just all based on 24 hours of spam.
On a related note, I’m sure I’m going to have to take this comment out of the junk folder.