In the interests of openness, we have compiled statistics for the posts we have deleted from the blog last month, April 2007, broken down according to person and type of comment. We have only listed those who had three or more comments deleted. There were three people with two comments deleted, and 22 with just one comment deleted.

The figures do not perfectly represent what appears on the blog as comments that are made to a deleted comment also do not appear on the site, so while the responding comment may have been perfectly reasonable, it will not appear.

In total the site has received 414 comments in April, 36 were automatically removed by spam software, and we have deleted 51, so just over 13 percent of them. For a second month, this was much higher than we would normally expect and can be explained again by one persistent poster who made 20 (39 percent) of the deleted comments. This was again in relation to the difficult situation surrounding registrar RegisterFly. April also saw a very large increase in spam blog comments (15 comments, or 29 percent), something that we had predicted and put in place two spam filters to deal with.

The stats are given in tables below:

Above are the deleted comments broken down according to type. These types are outlined in our Comment Policy. We may add or remove types over time as the situation demands.