A blog post is lifeless without comments from the readers so I’m glad that there are people who actually read my posts (even if they’re nonsensical) and shared their  own footprint regarding the topic.

In the first year of this web site’s existence which lasted from February 12, 2009 to February 12, 2010, I was able to write 429 blog posts. On my blog posts, a total of 1,516 comments were left. That’s an average of 3.53 comments per blog post.

Excluded from that number were 6,303 spam comments captured by my Akismet spam filter.

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Since this site was born on February 2009, my Akismet spam filter has been working overtime to catch those comment and pingback spams being left by some dimwits trying to advertise their web sites and their whatnots.

In fact, Akismet already caught 2,243 spams. Sometimes however, it incorrectly identifies a legitimate comment as spam. That is called a false positive. This is why from time to time, I check my spam box.

This day, I found time to check my spam box and I was pretty amazed how spammers have already evolved in their spamming techniques. If before, they just bombard you with comments full of links, now, their comments don’t look spammy anymore and could even pass up as legitimate.

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