I briefly had a problem with comment spam on this site, but after I activated the Askismet spam filter for Wordpress (the blogware this site uses), the spam problem was licked. Every day, Askismet would catch up to a dozen spam comments and hold them in its filter for a bit before sending them to their richly deserved fate in the bit bucket. The ‘bots were stopped cold. I didn’t even have to check the comment database randomly to make sure Akismet was on task; it nailed every bogus comment, every time.

I just happened to check Akismet this morning, though, and I’m somewhat unnerved by what I found. There hasn’t been any comment spam sent my way for a week or so. The ‘bots are leaving me alone.

Normally, this would be cause for minor celebration, or at least a wry smile, but instead I find this situation foreboding. It’s like the scene in every zombie horror flick when the ravenous undead horde’s attack upon the mountain cabin/abandoned factory/makeout pad/crypt is successfully repulsed by the teenage protagonists, and all is quiet…