So it seems there is a new way for comment spam.
It to copies part of your blog post and uses it as a comment and within a minute you're hit with approx. 12 identical comments on the same post with different sender names, IP addresses and various eMail addresses as well as a multitude of idiotic weblinks. I didn't even look at the email addresses or the links they refer to, the email addresses are most likely fake and the links are sure to be crap. I just deleted them right away.
I am wondering though if they actually have someone sitting there typing in the captchas?
Because that was the first change I made. I hate captchas but I found myself constrained to use them. Apparently that didn't make any difference at all.
Next thing I did is require signing in ... let's wait how that turns out ... and I set my comments up so that after 2 weeks the comments on older blog posts (which are the ones that are being hit) are closed. Let's see tomorrow.
The thing is ... my blog isn't even interesting or important at all, I don't even think anybody is reading it (ok, I lied, it is being read I can see the visitors, but you get what I meant, right? I am not some wildly popular blog with tens of thousands of views every day), so what sense does it make?
