The Shoutbox is gone.
I checked my page today and had 532 messages in the shoutbox, pretty much all spam. The same strange generic spammer messages, “Hey, great site blah blah blah random stuff that doesn’t make sense blah blah blah hey a bunch of links to crappy sites.”
So, I got rid of it. If you’d like to leave a comment you can do so at the end of the post you are commenting on. I think that’s better anyway.