Comments on: The Blog Tool that Has Saved Me Months of Work

By: Cookman

Cookman — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:14:52 +0000

Thanks for sharing this. Great!

By: Dutil

Dutil — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:48:06 +0000

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, and I end up with more questions than I start with hehe. Interesting take…don’t think I would’ve come up with that one on my own.

By: GT

GT — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:38:51 +0000

I better install this before it’s too late :D

By: Notebooki

Notebooki — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:27:20 +0000

2 milion spam comments? lol

By: Alex D

Alex D — Tue, 27 May 2008 09:46:18 +0000

Lucky number :)). Akismet for the win!

By: efrain

efrain — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:06:49 +0000

holy crap. 2million? dang. although my commentage is almost zero, I have experience in receiving spam commentage on another site and boy is it annoyingly frustrating. Akismet is awesome.

:: efrain

By: David Russell

David Russell — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:39:51 +0000

I’m not sure if life without Akismet would be as bad as you think (speaking personally, I would just go back to using the nearly-as-effective Spam Karma 2), but it is certainly one of only a couple of Wordpress plugins that can be described as ‘essential’ (the other being Bad Behaviour).

By: Lorelle

Lorelle — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:52:24 +0000

I'm heading towards that 2 million mark fast, too, Darren, and I have to tell you, Akismet is a great time saver, but the newly updated Akismet Auntie Spam Firefox Greasemonkey Script makes processing Akismet spam a breeze. Engtech of Internet Duct Tape makes each new version better than the last with powerful features. The last version included separating the single comment spam posts, unique (so to speak) comments, from the "hammer comment spammers", the ones who redundantly spam 5, 10, or 100s of the same comment spams. Instead of being tied to frequent checks for false/positives, I need only scroll the list of unique comment spams and ignore the multiple comment spam redundancies. Akismet with Auntie Akismet is truly brilliant as a time and work saver!

By: Dogs Of Chinatown

Dogs Of Chinatown — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:31:12 +0000

Rightfully said and like you we just don’t have time for the nonsense. We all have way to much work to do but love the interactivity with our fans.

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 19:03:55 +0000

Like Zit Seng, I also use akismet in conjunction with Peter’s Custom Anti Spam. Between the two, I don’t have to deal with it, and can even leave comment moderation off. I work 12 hour days at my regular job, and don’t want to leave comments (when I get some) sitting around awaiting moderation for that long. The captcha stops the bots before they even get to akismet, and yet with that, akismet still manages to catch several each day. That and blocking certain IPs that keep on trying does the job.

By: tabs

tabs — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:41:36 +0000

Sorry. Too many false positives for me. We took Akismet out of our installs.

By: Kimmono

Kimmono — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:33:02 +0000

bill weaver: Aksimet just times out on large chunks of spam, but
I sorted out the spam waiting to be moderated. The problem is all that spam that is already inside the system. 300k of spam already in posts. Got any idea on how to fix that?

By: David

David — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:36:22 +0000

Wow 2 million spam comments?! imagine the bandwidth/storage they could have eaten

By: n-blue

n-blue — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:26:04 +0000

Well, Indeed, if your have (presumably) 20 spams in same time you just take 2 second to demis them.
Btw, Akismet is great tool and I love it.

By: dewaji

dewaji — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:12:14 +0000

wew…. thats a big number of spam. I allready use akismet too

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:18:48 +0000

Yikes – thats a big chunk of time to be doing something better with life. I did the same sums with my own blog and have been saved 19.47 hours. Not bad for the $5 a month subscription i pay.

I use Akismet with the Bad Behavior plugin, the later which stops a lot of the spammers even getting as far as being caught by Akismet

By: Carlo Selorio

Carlo Selorio — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:00:46 +0000

Yep, I too use Akismet and its by far the best tool to use… since I don’t have to worry about spam comments to my blog. I use to spend a lot of time removing it one by one.

Cheers,
Carlo

By: bill weaver

bill weaver — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:54:00 +0000

@Kimmono, if you are talking about 300K spam awaiting moderation when you enable Askimet, just click “Recheck Queue for Spam” in the upper right of the Moderation Queue page. Might take forever to process.

By: CatherineL

CatherineL — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:29:56 +0000

I thought I got a heap of spam, but I would be really annoyed if I had to delete all that.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:16:23 +0000

I recently started my new WordPress blog the other day, and I'm yet to receive any spam at all. I'm dreading the day that it starts but I'm ready with Akismet already installed/activated. One of my other blogs has caught over 200 spam comments so far with a high success rate. No comments have been caught that are legitimate, and none that were spam have passed through. I have written a little article about the Akismet plugin if anyone is interested.