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The slow upward creep of comment spam

A long time ago, I noticed that spam comments on this blog had inched up to being about 10 times as numerous as legitimate comments. Yesterday I checked again, noting 29,181 spam comments and 1,907 legitimate ones; the ratio has slowly crept up to 15.3. Sigh.

 

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