There is the honest and intelligent Sebastian who occasionally writes about SEO and provides Smart IT Consulting and then there is the Scam Artist Sebastian Foss. They are not the same person.
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I took a few days off from blogging and came back to thousands of spam comments. Normally I do a quick review of the Akismet caught spam before I delete them forever, but when you’ve got thousands its impossible.
So I’ve decided to implement a Comment Timeout which should cut down on a lot of the spam. Basically, I’m thinking that if a post hasn’t generated a comment in the last 60 days, it’s a dead issue, probably not getting a lot of natural blog traffic any way, would rather see a comment on a more recent post, and more than likely is just some misguided trackback spambot.
The other nice thing is that this also ties in the Bad Behavior logs and will ban IPs that show up there as well. So for you 1700 spam bots that have been caught by Bad Behavior in the last 7 days, you’re now being blocked from commenting all together.
I should be back up blogging soon, got a couple other projects to finish up on the sites that actually generate income. 
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