As obvious as it is I never really thought of this. Good point, a lot of spam has been reduced over the last few days and the comments do seem to be more meaningful, engaging and thoughtful.
That is a bit alarming that 10 spam accounts make up 10% of the posts each day. I was not aware of that.
This was always one f the planned side-effects.
Crazy isn't it? there are more of course. The estimate is that about 50% of all posts are automated. Then, add the automated comment bots in...