Akismet for Spam Comments
June 2nd, 2006 · Posted in Announcements, ToolsObviously, I haven’t been posting on this blog in a while. Who has time when the world is coming to an end? In any case, imagine my surprise when I found out my itsy bitsy blog became a haven for comment spammers. I even got a little bit of nasty post fodder for my spam apathy.
I realize it’s my responsibility to take care of shite like this, so I’ll take all the blame for anyone who was a victim of spammage in their RSS readers. So I do apologize. I’ve sifted through and manually deleted 200+ spam comments and installed the Akismet plug-in for Wordpress to remedy the issue. It’s worked extremely well on my other blog, and I don’t know why I didn’t take the 5 minutes I should have to install it over here two months ago.
According to Akismet’s “Spam Zeitgeist”, 92% of all comments are spam. I guess that’s probably pretty accurate. 
And considering they’ve caught 52,544,282 spam comments to date, they probably know a little bit about the issue.
If you’re looking to stop all those pesky comments with Akismet too, be sure to stop by Wordpress.com and sign up so you can receive an API key. Akismet will not work without a Wordpress API key, which is actually very clever to make sure you have to go through a number of steps before spammers can get their hands on one. The more steps you include the less likely a spammer will foolow through.
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June 30th, 2006 at 7:53 am
Not “nasty post fodder” at all - your blog made it into my RSS folder - and I’d never have found it without the spammer.
It was the spammer I was having a go at …
How do we deal with spam? Blocking is one idea - but taking the mickey out of the spammer and googling for those other people who have been hit by the same spammer as me - is a bit of relaxing fun really … and I got a blog entry out of it ….
Now if we could just figure out what to do with the trolls ….