On February 14th, I upgraded MtDewVirus to WordPress 1.5 and on February 27th, I deactivated all spam prevention plugins. I was kind of curious how many comments, trackbacks, and pingbacks have been flagged as spam by my WP install, so I just took a look. It’s April 1st, but this is no joke…I have 10,000 spam comments sitting in my database. Ten thousand pieces of spam in a month and a half! Thanks to WordPress, not a single one was ever viewable by those of you reading MDV.
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Nick Momrik 
This is one of the reasons why I switched to WP. when I used PMachine, I was searching spam comments and I deleted it. I thought that I’ve just deleted all the spam comments, but for fact, the comment’s search engine didn’t catch all of the spam comments! So? when I switched to WP, I noticed that I still had it :-S
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I agree. It wasn’t without some trepidation that I deactivated all my spam plugins. However, the results so far have been pleasantly surprising. My traffic isn’t anywhere near what your site would receive, yet I was still expecting a torrent of spam to leak through. Another big thank you to WP!
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I think I get a lot of my spam from the simple fact that I used to host a lot of poker content here. In October I moved all of the poker stuff off to two other sites, but the spammers have only increased since then.
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That brings up an interesting point as it implies that spammers specifically search for and target appropriate sites (eg. in this case, your poker related stuff). That suggests, at the very least, that they’re getting a bit smarter as they’ve realised that blanket spamming blog sites is becoming less effective.
With the nofollow tag in force on many blogs, they’ll be relying more and more on click-throughs which means that they have to identify the correct audience (and thus, spam the relevent sites).
BTW, your poker chip trick site is pretty cool! Rounders actually came on TV last night in the UK so your site was quite illuminating:-)
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This is an important development. I wrote two similar articles. Within minutes both received *personalised* comments that were very very specific to those posts. Spooky. OT Nick: Have you got a url for A or is it secret / experimental.
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I haven’t touched it yet…most likely I’ll mess around with it right here. 😉
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