Wiki spam

Sorry, but I really don’t get it. Do they really think I’m going to click on any of their digusting links, do they really think their spamming has any results? I presume they don’t even look whether their spamming actually appears on the website, otherwise they’d obviously notice that none of their stuff gets through. I get every day heaps of suspicious comments which require approval and, thanks heaven, WordPress together with Akismet filter with an amazing precision the spam out of it.

Looking at the stats of Akismet you can see that on an average day around 5.000.000 comments are being filtered out of which only (…speechless..) 500.000 are so called ‘ham’ messages, i.e. meaningful data. Looking even further via Whois and other systems you’d discover that the biggest Wiki spam is from Asia. With a blooming economy comes a deterioration of ethical principles…?

Whether spammers think they can fool the Google rating system or manipulate the idle minds on this planet, I guess it’s all part of an eco system which reflects very much the viral world where in effect the net result is that immunity and defense increase of the attacked organisms. As much as our evolution is driven by random mutations and viral forces, the internet is getting better and data with real informative content is better protected as time goes by. Company like Akismet are doing a priceless job, much like white blood cells in our bodies.