WordPress rulez..

There is nothing like a comment spammer telling you something about their age. If you have left a comment here recently, I hope that the note I included regarding comment moderation in the comment template caught your attention. The following is one of the more original comment spam I’ve seen:

Great job on this site. And, thanks again for the info. WordPress rulez.. I like it. Hey, did I tell you about my encounter with and the amazing wonders of vitamins and supplements? I Feel great as never before! Check it out. Any problems? Let nature help.

This puppy arrived today. In fact, it arrived several times. Now you would think that if you were trying to slide a comment by someone as being legitimate you would not submit the same one on 2 entries that were weeks apart within a minute of each other giving a different email address and url on each.

I’ve been watching somewhat amused at the progression of the comment spam. One of the reasons Andrea originally switched to WordPress a year or so ago was because comment spammers were pounding her blog with alot of comment spam. One day a while ago, she asked why her blog and this one seemed to only randomly get hit with a few spam, when they had previously pounded away. I told her from a programmer’s perspective, there’s no point in wasting alot of processing time on something until you have a reasonable chance of the processing succeeding. So, right now, they are trying to find a hole that will allow the comment spam through. In watching the characteristics of the spam change, I can tell that they are at least familiar with some of the comment settings in WordPress.

Do you see the irony of the statement in the comment spam that became the title of the post? One of the reasons WordPress is so popular is that it allows the site owner alot of choices in moderating comments including, if necessary, moderating every comment. Yes, you’re right, WordPress rules (and you’re wasting your time).