I hesitate to post this question, because I’m not sure it’s in my interest for things to change, but anyway….
Why is it that 99% of the blogspam comments that hit this blog begin with the words “Nice site”? Surely the spammers realize that such predictability just plays into the hands of the spam detection engines like Akismet. OK, I realize that the most likely explanation is that everyone is using the same spambot, and the “Nice site” is boilerplate which they can’t change. But it’s still pretty dumb….
(We’re talking a lot of spam here – Akismet has caught 7,130 spam coments since I upgraded to WordPress 2.0.2 in March.)