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lies, damn lies, and statisticsFiled Under: Spam, plugins

A little over a month ago I released the first version of my anit-spam plugin called Fun with Random Comment Forms. Since then I have been doing a lot of work to find bugs and add useful features, and I am thinking of adding some statistics into the mix. The question is, what statistics to add?

What I want to know from you is what would be the most important things you could know about the spam on your blog?

The version that is live out there right now only captures the total number of automated comments that have been prevented. I didn’t find that particularly useful so I started adding more.

The current test version logs the number each day and reports it back, on the graph below. It also captures the same data for Akismet to provide a comparison between automated spam and person-entered comment spam. (I only added this yesterday so it doesn’t currently have any data)

I have some ideas but I really want to hear yours. What do you want to know about the spam that hits your blog?