{"id":281,"date":"2008-01-12T21:10:16","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T02:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitstep.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/12\/passing-the-100000-mark\/"},"modified":"2008-01-12T21:10:16","modified_gmt":"2008-01-13T02:10:16","slug":"passing-the-100000-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/12\/passing-the-100000-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing the 100,000 mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, <a href=\"http:\/\/akismet.com\/\">Akismet<\/a> reported that it had blocked its 100,000th spam comment on my site\/blog.  While that&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Props definitely go out to <a href=\"http:\/\/automattic.com\/\">Automattic<\/a> for creating such a reliable and accurate service.  When I <a href=\"\/blog\/2006\/07\/31\/comment-spam-evolution\/\">first wrote about it<\/a> over a year ago, I was very impressed with its precise filtering of spam and non-spam (aka <dfn>ham<\/dfn>) comments along with its unobtrusiveness.  Akismet truly makes spam filtering transparent to the end user, unlike other methods such as CAPTCHAs.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I can&#8217;t forget thanking the developers of <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/\">WordPress<\/a> as well.  Without them, I would have no site from which I&#8217;d have to protect from spam. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Check back later when this site surpasses the 1,000,000 mark for spam.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Akismet reported that it had blocked its 100,000th spam comment on my site\/blog. While that&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[92,31,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}