Akismet is fantastic!

A few months ago, I began to receive spam comments here on my blog. At first, it was only one or two..but that quickly became ten or so per day. I decided to activate the built-in Akismet plugin for Wordpress, and it turns out to have been one of the best decisions I’ve made. This is the message I got when I logged in today:

Akismet has protected your site from 1,062 spam comments.

I highly recommend this plugin to anyone on Wordpress!

One Response to “Akismet is fantastic!”

  1. Akismet revisited at jbctech’s web log Says:

    [...] Back in May, I made a post called “Akismet is fantastic!”  That was back when Akismet had blocked a mere 1,062 spam filled comments.  Today, I’m reaching the 14,000 mark.  I post about this today, because yesterday Akismet introduced a bug in their statistics update that caused over 150 of them to not be filtered for me.  My inbox was full — luckily 1) WordPress makes it incredibly easy to mark these as spam and move on and 2) They fixed the bug very quickly.  Again, I never realize how wonderful it is until I’m without it for a few hours…  I have added the Akismet spam counter on the bottom of the right column for fun. [...]

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