Thank you Akismet!

February 28, 2007 By

This line, about my blog’s spam that’s been blocked so far, says it all!

“Akismet has caught 403,396 spam for you since you first installed it.”

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  • http://www.daivddalka.com/createvalue David Dalka

    at least 3 false positives of real comments I made.

  • http://www.daivddalka.com/createvalue David Dalka

    at least 3 false positives of real comments I made.

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    David: yeah, I’m trying to catch those too. I’ve been reading every spam lately to check for them. If you notice more happening, email me.

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    David: yeah, I’m trying to catch those too. I’ve been reading every spam lately to check for them. If you notice more happening, email me.

  • http://www.securityusa.info/ Ny Nj

    Akismet does have false positives – howver, overall, it is a time saver -

    If there was just a way for users to TWEAK it more to reflect their blogs’ algos, it would be even better.

  • http://www.securityusa.info/ Ny Nj

    Akismet does have false positives – howver, overall, it is a time saver -

    If there was just a way for users to TWEAK it more to reflect their blogs’ algos, it would be even better.

  • http://searchengineland.com/ Danny Sullivan

    It’s always catching me as a false positive, including here before. I’ll give you a test now, Robert!

  • http://searchengineland.com Danny Sullivan

    It’s always catching me as a false positive, including here before. I’ll give you a test now, Robert!

  • http://www.naturalsearchblog.com/ Silver Smith

    I like Akismet a lot, though I do skim the filtered comments to see if something got filtered that shouldn’t. There’ve been a very small number of times that someone’s comment got mislabelled as spam.

    It’s still a very helpful tool. I’m thinking that using it in combination with a Captcha would make it even more effective. (That is, perhaps they’re be even fewer of the spam messages that I’d need to skim if I used the Capcha in addition to Akismet.)

  • http://www.naturalsearchblog.com Silver Smith

    I like Akismet a lot, though I do skim the filtered comments to see if something got filtered that shouldn’t. There’ve been a very small number of times that someone’s comment got mislabelled as spam.

    It’s still a very helpful tool. I’m thinking that using it in combination with a Captcha would make it even more effective. (That is, perhaps they’re be even fewer of the spam messages that I’d need to skim if I used the Capcha in addition to Akismet.)

  • http://www.musicinterfaces.com/ Colin

    I’ve used Akismet for my personal blog for quite a while now. One problem I have is that it’s only ever displayed the first page of spam, there’s no link to review the rest. What makes me nervous is that I occasionally see reader comments in that first page so I wonder whether there’s more further down, forever lost?!

  • http://www.musicinterfaces.com Colin

    I’ve used Akismet for my personal blog for quite a while now. One problem I have is that it’s only ever displayed the first page of spam, there’s no link to review the rest. What makes me nervous is that I occasionally see reader comments in that first page so I wonder whether there’s more further down, forever lost?!

  • http://www.yatblog.com/ Martin

    Akismet does a pretty decent job, but I would like to see its development progress a bit faster so it would do an even better job, because having spam in your blog comments is pretty much the worst thing I can think of!

    I had no idea there were spam-bots trying to spam blogs before I started my first blog. So I’m really thankful that WordPress comes bundled with Akismet.

  • http://www.yatblog.com Martin

    Akismet does a pretty decent job, but I would like to see its development progress a bit faster so it would do an even better job, because having spam in your blog comments is pretty much the worst thing I can think of!

    I had no idea there were spam-bots trying to spam blogs before I started my first blog. So I’m really thankful that WordPress comes bundled with Akismet.