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Oct
20
(2008)
spam-o-rama
Filed under: general. Tags: akismet, plugin, spam, statistics, wordpress.
I’d missed the news, but the latest version of the Akismet plugin for WordPress includes some tasty stats. As with all things statistical, there’s a few ways to read the numbers, and there are some anomalies (ferinstance, it claims I had a few days of over 1000 ham i.e., valid comments per day and that’s just plain wrong) but the spam stats feel roughly right. They’re not dramatically different from what I was seeing under Mollom, except nobody gets inflicted with Captcha using Akismet.
Akismet history graph
Hey Darcy,
Are you using Akismet @ UCalgary blogs?
Thinking about using it here @ UBC but seems like it could be pricey.
-scott
@scott no, this is just for my blog (this one). For UCalgaryBlogs.ca I’m using the *cough* captcha plugin. It’s been effective so far. I may add Spam Karma 2 once it’s been given some fresh life, too.