In a previous post I commented on O'Reilly.com's war on spam according to their statistics, and thought you might find the most recent TechCrunch blog spam stats they've recently provided, informative as well :"On January 4 we reported that the Akismet filter had stopped a million spam comments from reaching TechCrunch. At that point we’d been using it for about nine months. The number of blocked spam comments is now two million, just ten weeks later. That works out to about 15,000 spam comments hitting TechCrunch every day. If we did not have Akismet, we couldn’t allow anonymous commenting here on TechCrunch. We used to go through all spam comments to pick out the occasional false positive and accept it. Now, there are just too many to go through. All comments marked by Akismet as spam get deleted almost immediately."
I turned blog comments off quite a while ago and to be honest, the best comments, recommendations and tips, as well as people I've met through this blog, I received over email and backlinks. Keep 'em coming! Moreover, it's not just the inability of service providers to keep up with the aggresive generation of splogs, but malicious parties are already exploiting some of the fancy features that make blogs so flexible when it comes to personalization and social networking. Next time Fortinet will come up with another advisory, this time discussing MySpace so consider it as a cyclical shift from one provider to another depending on the current defenses in place -- blackhat SEO.
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