Akismet has caught 60,128 spam for you since you first installed it.

That is the (lucky) number of spams I have received so far. Within 16 months in existence, that’s translated to over 3,758 per months. Pretty huge for a blog like this.

Why on earth am I suddenly talking about spams? No la, it’s just that I’m doing some housekeeping, cleaning up the mess over here and there. Upgrading here and there. Plus minus putting a little touch up on the theme (I’m still feeling slightly lazy writing).

I don’t have the number, but based on the number of comments moderated, I feel that spammer has ‘dropped by’ more than usual. Like unmanned house, which tends to get exposed to burglary higher than manned house, the same fate goes to blogs, I guess.

It’s not really bothering me, but I’m glad that they are still willing to drop by even when I’m not around.. Lol. At least I got someone taking care of blogjer….

Besides, I found lots of comments like below pending approval (I moderate first time commentators). It is not marked as spams (indeed, since they’re not viewed as spams by Akismet), but it is valid comment in the form of spam.

hey nice post.

I will check it out.

interesting site it really learns me a lot…

Are you going to approve it? Well, to me, it depends.. if the post is about tutorial, foods, games, it definitely makes sense, but if the post is about disaster or announcement, the comments will be ‘buried’ right away. Imagine ‘I’ll try it out’ comment for ‘This is not Bill Gates’s daughter‘ post, funny rite. Try what???

For little blogs like this, i don’t think readers will care too much if their comment is deleted accidently, but be considerate..