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Thursday, 11 October 2007

One million spam comments caught

by mike @ 00:09. Filed under

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.

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2 Responses to “One million spam comments caught”

Derek Says:
October 13th, 2007 at 03:14
It is consonant with my problem. Good spammer is dead spammer These bad guys disallow me to relax. And currently, Automattic Kismet is really best spam barrier of all accessible tools I know.
theunrul Says:
October 22nd, 2007 at 06:46
Yeah, Askimet is way cool. It is nice that a tool like this exists out there to help us bloggers spend time writing and not worrying about comments encouraging us to visit disreputable websites.

Please note: Comment moderation is currently enabled so there will be a delay between when you post your comment and when it shows up. Patience is a virtue; there’s no need to re-submit your comment.