Just how bad has comment spam gotten? Check it out, below. Red is spams, green is good comments, and black is a 30-day moving average. As you can see, I am averaging about 163 comments per day (essentially all spam). You can click on the images to enlarge them.

[EDIT: The images in question were dynamically generated. Due to changes in this site's architecture, they are no longer available as of August 17, 2008.]

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