spam-o-rama

October 20, 2008 · 2 comments

in general

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

Akismet history graph

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1 Scott October 21, 2008 at 10:27 am

Hey Darcy,
Are you using Akismet @ UCalgary blogs?
Thinking about using it here @ UBC but seems like it could be pricey.

-scott

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2 dnorman October 21, 2008 at 10:32 am

@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.

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