DISQUS

Zigire · 2 years ago

So far, for me, Akismet has caught 204 spammy comments ;)

So I'm some way off your total... makes a change!
webomatica · 2 years ago

Don't worry now that you have tempted the spams I'm sure they will find your blog... :)
Joy · 2 years ago

The spam caught by Akismet on my personal blog (http://heartfulls.com ... sorry, just had to plug ;) ) is 2,930. That's what Akismet says, anyway. Yeah, I understand the gratification... I thought I was the only person that took spam as a sign that my blog is findable. :)
Podophile · 2 years ago

Check out the Bad Behavior plug-in. It stops many spambots before they get to your site.

http://www.homelandstupidity.us/software/bad-be...

I started 2 blogs last summer. One has Bad Behavior installed and one doesn't. Even though the one with Bad Behavior gets 10 times the traffic, Akismet has had to block less than half the amount of spam versus the blog without Bad Behavior. 2100 vs. 5000. Pretty darned impressive.
webomatica · 2 years ago

Hmmm I'm thinking bad behavior might have to be fired up in addition to akismet. I noticed the big upsurge after I installed WordPress 2.1.

Joy, I guess in the absence of actual visitors, the spam man will do... or maybe writing about spam is the ticket!