Holy smokes, I just noticed that the spam count has skyrocketed – over 600+ spam comments caught this month alone! It would appear that spammers don’t take holiday breaks – December 25-26 (depending on which timezone you happen to be in) has Akismet catching well over 100 spam comments. Spammers need to get a life, seriously.
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I rarely look through and see what Akismet catches, but I noticed today that 16 comments had been flagged as spam and decided out of curiosity to skim through them and see what had gotten caught – the results were definitely good for a chuckle and I thought I’d post them here for posterity. 😛For some reason, my “Testing” post generated the most comments – 9 to be precise. For a post only containing 27 words, I get spam along the lines of:
Cheap Viagra Online: Good article, lots of intersting things to digest. Very informative
Ventego: Interesting and informative. But will you write about this one more?
Babafisa: what a lengthy and in depth article but full of useful information
For my “A trip to Izu” post, I got a couple, but my favorite was:
Npoet.ru: Say I freeze meat in January. The package has an expiration date of February. When I thaw it in June, why doesn’t it remember immediately that it should have gone bad four months ago?
And last but not least, for my “Minami-Senju Matsuri” post:
Zashkaser: Wow, must have been a terrifying experience! I’m glad both you and Ashley were ok, and that nothing got stolen.I hoped you gace the superheroes a good tip
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