They’re everywhere! In the last couple of days, reports have surfaced that both Movable Type and MSDN have been slammed by comment spam, and from reading through much of the commentary, we’re all getting hit by the same spammers.

In the case of MT, a bug in the software was apparently causing blogs to consume huge amounts of bandwidth, rebuilding constantly even if the spam went into the blogger’s moderation queue. Six Apart fixed the bug in short order, but the problem looms large for bloggers of all flavors.

Ugh.

Sean Gallagher blames Google’s page rank algorithm for much of this, and I can’t say that I disagree. If they didn’t stand to gain from throwing their links up anywhere on the net that they can, we’d likely have a much cleaner blogsphere.

My latest solution appears to have done the trick though. Since I added SpamWordBlock, not only has my moderation queue been free of drivel, but I haven’t seen a single one slip through to the blog itself.