What’s up with the comment spam?
A little more than 2 weeks ago, I celebrated my Akismet milestone of 1000 pieces of spam blocked. That’s 1000 pieces from December to April (not quite 5 months). Since hitting that milestone, an additional 402 pieces of comment spam have been flagged by Akismet. Additionally, a rather significant amount managed to get past Akismet (I don’t remember the exact number, but it was more than 50).
With the large load of spam that seems to be flooding in, I wonder if Akismet is having a problem keeping up. I’ve seen a couple of comments put into moderation (maybe 5). I think the Akismet plugin sends comments to moderation when the central servers can’t be reached. But the rest of the ones that got past everything and right into my comments feed were a bit alarming.
I’m still happy with Akismet, but I think this recent flood of comment spam is showing a couple of chinks in the armor.
