When a site/blog owner/maintainer has no longer the desire nor time to look after said site/blog, bad things are bound to happen. And happen they did, in the form of one failing spam-filter.
I have no idea how or why the filter (Akismet) failed, nor do I care enough to investigate, but the consequences where copious amounts of spam hitting the comments, which took many hours to remove.

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