i probably have a maximum of five readers, all good friends, who check in probably once every month or two in case i surprise them by posting (given my sporadic rate since i started this incarnation of my blog). so my traffic is way way low. abysmal. i am less than a nobody in the global ranking of site traffic. below the radar of microscopes.
even then, i get heaps of spam comments. 160 spam comments since i last checked my admin panel. 1,307 spam comments since i started this blog. this, in comparison to my 23 valid comments.
160 spam comments over 9 comments pages on which i have to perform the tedious workflow of: “choose all”, skim through, and choose “mark as spam” from the “bulk action” drop down box. it takes me a minute to complete the cycle this time around.
and this is for an internet nobody.
so i’m wondering how much spam the really big boys, the BSDs (Big Swinging D!cks) of the blogosphere and generally cool/highly-trafficked (yes, i know this is the wrong usage of the word) websites get. do they gets thousands and tens of thousands of spam email and comments by the day? how do they deal with it? do they employ a full-time employee to just screen and delete spam? or do they have sophisticated programmes to filter these out? or does all that typing of funny-shaped letters and numbers filter them out?
completely pointless and random thought i had of course.
but that’s how i roll sometimes. or maybe most of the time. spacing out and thinking completely random stuff.