Last week my PopsicleBoat metrics showed 97 parked (started) posts. Only 1 made it to publication.
The other 96 were bots stuffing the comment form. They fill in a field humans never see, a honeypot, so they think they posted. Ha! The accomplishment is I’m catching them before they become a problem. They’re also garbage collected.
PopsicleBoat is clear of spammers, junk posts, etc. My system is working.