I started to take a look at how much trackback, and comment spam is trying to get added to this site on a daily basis. Over the past 14 days we have measured just how many attempts are made to get a bogus trackback or comment spam added to the site.
We averaged over 150,000 attempts each day. Heck a lot of sites would love to get that kind of traffic. Considering their are 86,400 seconds in a day this breaks down to about 2 attempts every second. Someone needs to get a handle on this. They are also smart they really hammer my site about 2am Hawaiian Standard Time. This results in me spending 15 minutes in the morning removing comments or trackbacks that got flagged for approval. Typically the tools we are using now catches about 99.999% of the spam, so I am pretty happy with the results. But still angry that something more cannot be done.