One million spam comments caught

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.

2 thoughts on “One million spam comments caught

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

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