November 22, 2006I know what you’re looking for…
My last post detailed some steps that I’m experimenting with to reduce the number of spam comments being handled by my blog. This morning I added an audit log to see what folks are actually doing (or trying to do) during that process. I included data about the post they were attempting to comment on. It turns out that there is a bit if irony here… the first posts that has attracted the most comments is the one where I talked about getting spammed. 
And the other? It’s the one where I talk about the search terms used to find the Doctor site. If you read that post you’ll see what key words are probably attractive to the spammers. As an experiment I might remove that post for a while and see if the spam decreases.
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But of course! It’s a Doctor Blog! You’re a DOCTOR!!!
Hence the drug spam you’re flooded with. I guess it’s a little late for a makeover…
Comment by damnian — November 23, 2006 @ 11:26 am
Well, I am happy to report that some of the anti-spam measures are helping. I was getting approximately 1 spam comment per hour. After several days off (holiday for Thanksgiving vacation) I came back tonight to find three.
As in 3. Or, in binary, 0011 if you prefer.
There were also nearly 100 comments trashed by various measures I implemented last week, one of which I’ve written about (the confirm comment checkbox) and others that I have not.
I’m feeling a little better about things.
Comment by dave.rathbun — November 27, 2006 @ 1:08 am