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I Had to Install Spam Karma 2 Today
By JLP | January 29, 2006
I finally broke down and installed Spam Karma 2 today. I had to. Some jackass (I know it’s probably some computer program doing the spamming, but my guess is there was a jackass somehow behind it!) sent me no less than 200 spam comments today. Of course they were all held for moderation but it was still a pain deleting them. I also have email alerts when I get new comments so I had 200 email messages to clear out too.
One would think that spammers would figure out that they are just wasting time. Sure, their tactics might have worked in the past when blogging and commenting were new, but I just can’t see the average blog reader clicking on a spam comment. I’m sure the spammers are also trying to mess with Google so that their websites rank higher in search results.
Anyway, it’s a big waste of time all around.
Topics: Blogging | 2 Comments »
January 29th, 2006 at 11:09 pm
I feel your pain. When I upgraded to WordPress 2 I decided to give the built in spam protection a try, and it’s worked beautifully. I haven’t bothered re-installing SpamKarma.
January 30th, 2006 at 1:15 pm
It’s all about numbers, just like spam. Even if only 0.00000000000000001% of people fall for it, they come out ahead. At least you are using WordPress, for which there are tons of spam plugins. =(