I had gone several days without posting. When I got back on line I put out my offering and then checked the stats. I was awestruck at the number of hits I had received. I was beginning to think that I was finally getting what I deserved. When I checked my spam I realized that I was probably right. I had become a spam magnet.
I can go for days with no spam to delete. My other blog is spam free. This time when I check after few days I had 59 pieces of nonsense to get rid of. It became clear that for some reason the spambots were being attracted to two of my old posts. It was like flies on my pastry. There were so many that I didn’t have time to scan them to see if there might be some gold among the dross.
Is it just my turn or have the people who need to get a life been hitting everyone lately?
homo unius libri
Each new post of mine will get up to half a dozen spam comments. But about once a week older posts will attract from 20 to 50 spam comments. Sometimes they go back to posts a couple of years old. One last month had over 200. They need to move out of Mom's basement and get a life.
ReplyDeleteThanks. It is good to know I am not the only one.
DeleteI think most of it is done by automation and the people who start the things only get involved when someone responds.
Again, thanks.
Grace and peace.