Spike in comment spam?
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Over the last, let’s say, 72 hours, I’ve had just a crazy rash of comment spam. I’d have to say it’s been 5 to 8 times as heavy this week so far as any other week I can recall.
Akismet is catching it all, so no harm done, but I’m wondering if everybody is feeling the spammer love, or if I’m just on a lucky streak? It’s not important. Just a curiosity thing.
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Just your lucky week – spam goes up and spam goes down – sometimes one Post will be targeted also, so just be thankful that Akismet is standard here.
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And thankful I am!
I’m looking hard at migrating my site to a self-hosted platform because my two most popular features really cry out to be maintained through a database and a couple of dynamic pages. I’m hoping the plugins available to a .org installation will be as ironclad as the protection afforded me here.
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@ic2064
If your are under the impression a self-hosted blog will get less spam then it’s my experience that is not so. My experience was the opposite. My self hosted install received hundreds of spam comments that were caught by the Akismet spam filter each and every day. Here on free hosting my blog receives less spam than when it was self hosted. -
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Yes, I had a blog that was free hosted WordPress.com blog. I moved it and self-hosted it on a WordPress.org install for two years or more, and then chose to move it back to free hosting at WordPress.com. The extra features of using plugins was not worth the cost of web hosting and here I don’t have any upgrades or technical issues to worry about – Staff does it all. The blog’s traffic dropped when it became a self-hosted island as opposed to being a part of the WordPress.com community, and that traffic is now recovering since I moved it back to free hosting.
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Wait till you get into that 1000 per day spam range. I go through that about every couple months for a few days or so lately. Then it will drop down to maybe ONLY 450 per day for a couple more days and then back to the normal of 50-75 per day.
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@TT – Sorry if I wasn’t clear. I fully expect a self-hosted site to get hit harder than I do now. The sentiment I was trying to convey was the hope that the Akismet plugins would be as effective in the self-hosted realm as they are here, i.e. actually capturing the junk so it only bothers me, not my readers.
As I sit, I have two pages on my site that I’m constantly updating. One lists upcoming theatrical auditions, and the other lists upcoming shows. As each event passes, I have to edit the pages.
If I could write dynamic pages that drew from a database, I could program them to grab upcoming events, and I could add archive pages that showed past events as well, information readers have indicated an interest in.
I think the time saved there will probably be consumed with IT maintenance, but by day I’m an IT guy anyway so that doesn’t bother me in theory. We’ll see how it rolls in practice!
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Akismet is Akismet it does not matter to the best of my knowledge make any difference if Akismet is watching a .ORG or .COM site or even a standard html site. Same database of spam and same checks.
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