Some Random Dude

Just like every other bloke out there that has a blog, I’ve had my problems with comment spam. What you might not know though is that your spam may be giving you a false sense of who is visiting your site.

I regularly check my site logs to see who is coming to my site. I am especially interested in browser statistics - not only for this site, but in general as well. Last month, I noticed that the segment of visitors using Internet Explorer had steadily risen to around 45 to 50 percent. I found this to be a strange occurance since I was usually seeing a vast majority of Firefox users coming to my site with the occasional Safari boom when I’d post to Pixelsurgeon, Newstoday and Artdorks.

It wasn’t just a coincidence that during that same timespan, I was seeing my highest concentration of blog spam to date. I would sometimes get over 100 comment notifications that were spam and that doesn’t count the number that were actually blocked by my spam filters.

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