The Apocalypse blog got 2104 spam comments today!

Fortunately, Akismet caught most of them. 14 were sitting waiting for moderation. By the time I marked them all as spam, I’d received 4 more.

If you don’t know about Akismet, it’s a built-in Wordpress plugin that detects and filters spam. It works by comparing comments with spam comments collected by other blogs. The spam is separated from the “good” comments and is automatically deleted after 15 days.
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