Speaking of which, I’ve noticed quite a few other almost human spammers that are using Nick’s katakana name in my comments, so I’m thinking it’s prime time to write a quick little plugin that’ll determine a common source and perhaps start generating automated emails to the abuse account identified on APNIC or some other Whois service.

Perhaps if a few thousand people start spamming the abuse reporting emails, we’ll start to see some changes….

I think the rise of Google Blog Search is partly responsible for the increase in this kind of spam. I’m guilty of using it to find blog posts related to my sites and leaving a friendly comment and link. I wouldn’t dare do blatant spam, but some people obviously do. You could argue that most blogs don’t pass pagerank through their comment sections, but that doesn’t stop humans from clicking the links.

If the spam gets too bad, then I’ll just start employing some stronger tools to filter it, so it’s all good.

Also when I do get the odd spam comment on my blogs, it makes me feel good knowing it takes less time for me to delete the spam comment than they took to put it on!