I noticed a few days ago that Akismet had caught more than 1 mil­lion spam com­ments on this blog. That’s an incred­ible amount. I didn’t think more about it until I spot­ted that Dar­ren Rowse blogged about “The Blog Tool that Has Saved Me Months of Work” refer­ring to Akismet hav­ing caught 2 mil­lion spam com­ments for him. He cal­cu­lates that it has saved him over 46 days of mod­er­a­tion time.

Wow! That means it must have saved me 23 days effort, using his cal­cu­la­tions. If I include the 200,000 or so it has caught on the other blogs I man­age, it’s an awe­some amount of time saved.

I have to agree that Akismet is a fant­astic tool, and second his com­ment to encour­age you to pay for Akismet if you are get­ting a great ser­vice out of it.