Yesterday I took down my personal blog which was at histrel.me.uk/blog - why? Because since around 13th May the amount of spam comments I have had to moderate has been in the region of 10+ per day.  I had a few before that but not on this scale. I got fed up of seeing them in my inbox and, as I wasn’t doing much with the blog anyway, I decided to back-up and then delete it. For now.

Not being into spamming I was curious - how does it work? Was my blog address submitted to somewhere? If I set up the blg again will the same thing happen?

As I always moderate none of the spam actually appeared on my site so what was the point?Is it just a thrill from knowing someone’s being annoyed by all the spam? Very childish if you ask me.

Any advice gratefully received