Comments on: Sweet, Sweet Akismet

By: Lloyd Lopez

Lloyd Lopez — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:24:59 +0000

Akismet has protected my site from 20,057 spam comments.I’d say 99% success rate on filtering out the spam.

By: Avrila

Avrila — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 02:51:55 +0000

205 legitimate comments, 984 caught by Akismet, in almost a year now. It’s missed a couple and thrown a couple false positives–about half a dozen total mistakes. ~99.5% success rate looks pretty good to me.

I back it up with WP-Ban, without which it would’ve caught much more by now.

By: Meredith

Meredith — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 22:09:35 +0000

3,062 comments and Akismet has blocked 85,832 spams. Some comments are on old posts though from my days using Movable Type and my days using Spam Karma, etc.

By: Atomic Bombshell

Atomic Bombshell — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:26:56 +0000

So much spam was making it through my Askismet that I had to reinstall Bad Behavior. Not a single problem since. (Crossing my fingers and leaving out my URL!)

By: Panagiotis

Panagiotis — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:11:57 +0000

Akismet has been more then great!!
I am proud to have it on my website.
Keep up the good work mates.
Kind Regards
Panagiotis.

By: caroline

caroline — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:57:14 +0000

akismet’s been great! But I think the spammers are wising up because i am getting more and more spam that snuck through akismet and now I have to keep marking them as spam from my comments moderation panel.

By: Wallruss

Wallruss — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:45:31 +0000

349 posts on my blog and 10,647 spam caught. I love Akismet! It would be nearly impossible for me to blog without it.

By: Karkaf

Karkaf — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 14:07:33 +0000

59 posts on my blog, 99 ham-comments, and 187 spam caught by Akismet. So the volume is low and the ham/spam ratio pretty good (because no one knows me :-)!). But what is important to me is that Akismet never made a single error. That's great and i love it !

By: NSpeaks

NSpeaks — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:04:52 +0000

Since mine is a new blog, so only 2 spam comments with 25 genuine comments till now.

By: Alistair

Alistair — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:27:17 +0000

Since installing Akismet in August 2006, it has dropped approximately 170,000 spam comments on the floor. I cannot begin to imagine how difficult it might have been to manage that volume of spam if Akismet wasn't available.

By: David Mattison

David Mattison — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:22:39 +0000

“Akismet has protected your site from 277,510 spam comments.” But I’m almost embarrassed to admit that I have a mere “1,973 posts and 425 comments, contained within 49 categories.” And the posts/comments are after four years as a WordPress blogger; previously I was on Radio UserLand for a year. I’ve had my ups and downs with Askimet. Sometimes it integrates well with one release of WordPress and at other times it lets through hordes of comment spam. I also still can’t figure out how this “Diether” character gets through the Akismet traps.

By: Teli

Teli — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:35:23 +0000

Just hit my own spam milestone: 110,988 (as of just a minute ago)

By: ben

ben — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 02:27:05 +0000

122,001 Spam, as of this minute. 621 real comments.

That’s over 196 spams for every ham.

Akismet hasn’t let anything spammy through to my blog, ever. I think I’m lucky. The only time Spam ends up hitting is when I disable all my plugins to do WP upgrades.

By: ..: JJP

..: JJP — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:10:23 +0000

All I can say is that my website would be overrunned with spam had I not installed Aksimet 18 months ago. In the past year alone it’s snagged over 8,000 spam messages!

By: Tristan

Tristan — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:36:58 +0000

4,689 comments, Akismet has protected my site from 139,523 spam comments. The ratio is incredible ! I hardly can beleive it. Akismet is what i needed.
A french personal blog.
From Paris

By: Truden

Truden — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:18:52 +0000

How one can be proud with the SPAM he/she gets!?
That is shame…

I don’t use Akismet and I don’t have SPAM, neither I have SPAM bin.

By: paolo

paolo — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:25:27 +0000

91 ham / 13,402 spam

I wonder when will be availabe an akismet version for mail server.. with this rates of eaten spam would be a killer!

By: TW

TW — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:57:22 +0000

At the moment it is 1323 real comments vs 7730 spam comments.

I’ve had mixed experiences with Akismet. Like a previous commenter noted it seems to work in waves and when one spam gets through three or four do.

Over the last couple of months, it has probably only let 1 or 2 spam comments a week past though, so it is good.

In addition to akismet, I disable old comments via “Comment Timeout” and have a customised .htaccess which bans known bots and IP addresses which send more than three spam messages.

Overall, this seems to meld together to prevent a lot of spam - although I am getting a LOT less now than I was at the start of the year.

By: Ibrahim Cesar

Ibrahim Cesar — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:39:54 +0000

17,411 spam comments and 2,815 comments on my weblog.

By: MInTheGap

MInTheGap — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:52:43 +0000

36,761 - spam
4,065 - ham (before and after akismet)