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I know I was a bit harsh on the spammers yesterday.
I don’t know if I am paying for it today or not. 
I have gotten more of that crappy “smart spam” in the last 24 hours than I have in the last week.
But you’d think that the “real spam” would be going to it’s proper place - the Akismet Trash Bin. But again, in the last 24 hours, Akismet is missing one out of every five spam comments and sending them to me for moderation. I went and upgraded my Akismet plugin yesterday thinking that would help.
It didn’t. 
Anyone else having this problem lately, or did I just plant myself on the wrong side of the spam war yesterday?!
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Seeing you dressed in a spam can is just about the funniest thing I’ve ever seen!! LoL.
Sorry you have been having difficulties. On a brighter note I’ve given you a Thoughtful Blogger Award, you will find all of the details on my Writer’s Reviews.com blog. You deserve it for all you do to help others out here in the blogoshpere!
Christy:)
It’s not just you, Wendy! I’ve been getting LOADS of additional SPAM today, and all of it in the same format that Akismet usually catches.
p.s. - You look smokin’ hot in that can…
Ugh, me too and it’s getting old. I’m using Akismet and another simple plugin called Moderate Brief Comments by Kaf, which helps to separate those sneaky one-word comments, but it’s still tiresome. I know I’ve had at least 17 today. Then I stopped counting. What a waste of time.
*hehe* I just Love your fashion statement.
It seems to come in waves for me, the last few days have been bad. It is usually the same few very old posts that they reply to as well and it is the same spam that is caught at other times.
I had thought about closing old post, but I would really rather not do that.
has anyone had any addition luck with the additional question when replying, 5+2 etc or the bad behaviour plugins?
I haven’t seen an increase in the number getting through Akismet but I have seen an increase in what Akismet has been catching recently.
Love that picture!
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Just kidding.
I’ve been been using Bad Behavior as a complement to Akismet and so far it’s worked pretty well. One thing I’ve noticed though, there seems to be a loophole that if a pingback is dated really old, (like 1969) it might pass right through the filters AND without any notification. This happened to me and I never received any notification of getting pingback, and yet there it was, advertising lovely ways that women could…. ok that’s not really important.
The point is that it slipped right by me. :O
BTW, I heard using Akismet along with Spam Karma has reportedly been the best combination of plugins you can use to stop spam.
I don’t know how many of you have your blogs configured to send you an email whenever there is a new comment/trackback on your site but I use that feature and have caught a few spam trackbacks on old posts that way.
Obviously this could be a problem if you receive a ton of email. However, you can set yourself up with a special email account to be used just for that purpose and then scan through there when you have the time.
Wendy, I use Akismet and Spam Karma together and in the last few days I’ve STILL seen a jump in stuff getting through. I want to meet the people who buy things from spam, since they’re the ones who help this annoyance continue. Ugh.
I’ve been using Akismet and Bad Behaviour and have had very few problems for a long time, particularly since the latest Akismet upgrade too.
Maybe you upset a lot of spammers, maybe someone did buy some comments just to get to you, maybe Akismet is under a lot of stress at the moment, either way, I’d certainly recommend getting something else is to back it up.
Also, like most others reading this now, I definitely want to know where you got the SPAM outfit from?!
I’m with you… yesterday I received more spam than I had in the last month. I use Bad Behavior and Spam Karma and much like you I would estimate 1 in 5 made it through. Thankfully, today has been much better.
It’s The Law of Attraction: your mad about spam, you’re thinking about spam so bam: you GET spam
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I’ve installed askismet since the day I started and it has never really given me much problems though I admit I haven’t got as much comments as you probably have. By the way, your outfit’s fabulous! Haha.
Cheers, Ellesse
I read on shoemoney yesterday that Jeremy uses dillsmacks akismet, a whitelist combined with Askimet.
You can read his article here
http://www.shoemoney.com/2007/07/05/why-does-my-comment-not-show/
and find more about the whiteliste here:
http://www.dellanave.com/blog/2006/11/27/akismet-with-local-whitelist/
I seem to get a lot of it for the blog over at 451press, but my homemom3 doesn’t seem to get much. Course then again I wouldn’t really know as I have a spam box and just delete, delete, delete all day. Not really sure where all that comes from. But the 451 blog gets a TON of it.
Cute outfit. lol.
Wendy, you were not harsh on the spammers yesterday, they deserve the harshness! imo
Regarding the akismet thing, it’s the same thing with my blog, I don’t get it.
Hey really nice costume by the way lol
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This is the first time I’ve ever heard about “paid comments.” This brings a whole new fakeness to the blogging world. I think that if a blogger has to pay for comments they are doing something very wrong.
Lovely fashion statement there Wendy
The whole spam thing is such a mess lately, paid spamming and comments and crap landing in our inboxes. 
Wendy, the Spam Can is hilarious, is that a Halloween costume?
In addition to Akismet, I also use the Bad Behavior plugin. I haven’t noticed an increase in spam so it might be because I’m running both plugins.
I’ve noticed that Akismet has been catching a lot more spam in the last few days.
Great costume
WAHAHAHA you look so funny that way
Well, I have not seen any increment in my blog’s spam but I have seen it on my gmail and google hosted email accounts these days. That’s weird and pretty annoying >:(