Opportunity knuckleheads
WordPress 2.8 came out on the 10th; I did the upgrade on the 11th; the 12th went by without incident.
And then, suddenly, a deluge of spam: over seven hundred since the weekend began. Akismet hasn’t missed any of them — it’s been running about 99 and 44/100ths percent accurate since I installed it last fall — but still I have to wonder what’s going on. Are the Evil Dweebs retraining their bot armies to look for WP upgrades?
Then again, I probably shouldn’t whine. Akismet keeps count, and they’re saying 82 percent of all comments introduced into the system are in fact spam. Even after the weekend bump, I’m averaging about 63.
McGehee »
16 June 2009 · 8:57 am
The spammers go in cycles, and there’d been a lull for a while (maybe because of the economy?) but it was bound to cycle back up again.
My luck, it started cycling back up for me a few days ago about the time I experimentally turned off the CAPTCHA word for commenters not logged in on my site.