unitstep.net » akismet http://unitstep.net the home of peter chng Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:37:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 Passing the 100,000 mark http://unitstep.net/blog/2008/01/12/passing-the-100000-mark/ http://unitstep.net/blog/2008/01/12/passing-the-100000-mark/#comments Sun, 13 Jan 2008 02:10:16 +0000 Peter Chng http://unitstep.net/blog/2008/01/12/passing-the-100000-mark/ This week, Akismet reported that it had blocked its 100,000th spam comment on my site/blog. While that’s not a remarkable number, in light of how little traffic my site gets that figure becomes somewhat more significant. Since this site has only been around for just over one and a half years (19 months), that works out to roughly 5200 spam comments every month, or a little over 1300 every week. Note that the current averages are actually much higher since in the beginning I got a lot less spam before the bots discovered my site.

Props definitely go out to Automattic for creating such a reliable and accurate service. When I first wrote about it over a year ago, I was very impressed with its precise filtering of spam and non-spam (aka ham) comments along with its unobtrusiveness. Akismet truly makes spam filtering transparent to the end user, unlike other methods such as CAPTCHAs.

Of course, I can’t forget thanking the developers of WordPress as well. Without them, I would have no site from which I’d have to protect from spam. ;)

Check back later when this site surpasses the 1,000,000 mark for spam.

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I wonder if this is related to the recent update to the system (as it’s a centralized service), or something else. The update seemed to be only related to improving the statistics tracking of the service, and not something related to the spam-detection algorithm. I’ve tried disabling/enabling the plugin, so we’ll see if that helps - has anyone else been having these problems?

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