Milestone: 100,000 Fake Blog Comments (And Counting)
E.politics passed a significant milestone this weekend, but it’s not one that I’m likely to celebrate: the site received its 100,000th spam comment. As of late January, six months after e.politics launched, only 20,000 fake comments had come in, but I’m proud to say that a five-fold increase has taken only four months. Tomorrow, the world!
Of course, I’m not wading through these suckers by hand — the Akismet plug-in for WordPress takes care of all but a few each week. Most of them are ridiculously obvious, i.e., this one that came in today:
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