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Akismet: The Killer of Spam

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  1. Kyle (2 comments.) says:

    It may just be related to a decrease in my popularity, but it seems that akismet has actually reduced the amount of spam I actually receive. I haven’t ever cleaned out my database, and the 15-day queue has steadily gone down over the last few months. I’m standing at 590 right now.

  2. miahz (2 comments.) says:

    It’s likely coincidental and due to other recent changes i made to my site, but i’ve seen a sharp increase in spam since i’ve been using Akismet. I upgraded to WordPress 2.0.1 and enabled Akismet just a few days ago and it’s already halted over 100 spam comments since. It probably took about three months to tally that many before. I also noticed i’m primarily getting a different type of spam than before, but that too is probably not Akismet’s fault. It doesn’t seem to care and catches them all very neatly.

  3. Jonathan (83 comments.) says:

    I love Akismet — I’ve been a strong supporter of it for quite some time now. I use it on all my blogs and it works like a charm. Matt has done yet another great thing for the WordPress and blogging community — Congrats Matt!

  4. AJ (13 comments.) says:

    I am with Miahz on this.
    Until a month ago, I got spam like one in 2-3 months (which is due to my blog not being very popular ;))

    But after I tried Akismet for a few days, then turned it off, I started getting the “meds” spam more frequently and now, about in a month and a half, I’ve gotten around 100 spam comments.

    Yes I am using Akismet.

    Another problem I have had with Akismet is that it sometimes shows that I have say 10 spam comments but the interface shows only maybe 5-6 of them. I assume this is because of duplicate comments. But nowhere on the interface does Akismet indicate that and at those times I have to go into the database to ensure it’s not a false positive which Akismet is not showing for some reason :-(

  5. David Russell (32 comments.) says:

    Akismet is fine except for the ethical issues (namely giving special favours to human-rights-abusing Yahoo)

  6. martin english (2 comments.) says:

    It’s likely coincidental and due to other recent changes i made to my site, but i’ve seen a sharp increase in spam since i’ve been using Akismet. I upgraded to WordPress 2.0.1 and enabled Akismet just a few days ago and it’s already halted over 100 spam comments since.
    Similar things happened with my site when i went to wordpress 2.0, though I never bothered turning akismet on; almost tempted to leave the comments up there (my site is more a cory doctorow like brain dump than a traffic generator, so it doesn’t get much traffic and I normally don’t care about that). HOWEVER, what i have noticed is that ALL the spam comments are made to the one post; my akismet post !!!



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