ryan kennedy’s blog

Just this morning, Akismet went over the 1000 pieces of spam blocked milestone. Despite the earlier problems I had with Akismet, it’s been smooth sailing since I made some tweaks to the plugin.

In the 1000+ pieces of blocked spam, I’d say there were maybe 1 or 2 false positives and it let fewer than 5 to 10 pieces of spam through. That’s not bad considering what I used to deal with (see this, this and this).

So kudos to the Akismet guys, keep up the good work. If you’re running WordPress, get Akismet. In my opinion, it’s a fantastic, transparent way to keep almost all of your comment spam under control (of course, I can’t speak for how well it does on higher traffic blogs).

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