I follow the Akismet spam statistic of Time Recursion and empty the spam bin quite regularly (about twice a week), mostly because I hate being welcomed to my Dashboard by the message: “You have 79 new spam comments” and because I secretly hope that Akismet made a mistake and I did receive a comment with some content. Sadly I’m mostly wrong, and this plug-in really does a wonderful job.
But it really makes you think, how is such a disproportionate ratio between legitimate comments and spam even possible? Especially when you take into account that most of those spam messages (approximately 60% in my case) are not made by bots, but from real people that try to bring traffic to their own website. I understand that my website is quite attractive for advertising through comments since Time Recursion is a do-follow website, but guys, come on! At least write something that’s related to the post you’re commenting! If you’ll insert your website address in the Website field, you’ll still get the PR juice and if the content of your comment is related to the article I’ll approve that comment without hesitation, you can be sure of that. After all, I’m always eager to get some feedback on what I write.
