Since the late 2006 when I started moving to Akismet for some spam protection for this blog, it has already blocked around 930,000 spam comments. Automattic released the latest Akismet stats per blog which is accessible in the WP admin panel. For this blog alone, Akismet had 936,274 spams caught with 31,680 legitimate comments. Had it not been with Akismet and other plugins like Spam Karma, blogs would suffer spam fatigue. And since Akismet is a centralized system, the worst they could do is attack the "central nervous system" itself and the whole thing breaks down (hack, DDOS attacks, etc). A couple of weeks ago, SixApart launched a new blog anti-spam software called TypePad Anti-Spam which aims to compete with Akismet and Defensio at combating comment spam in both TypPad/MovableType blogs and WordPress blogs. Akismet charges $5 per month if your blog earns at least $500 a month. Akismet has an open API but is not open source so you don't have access to its codebase. Read more in our articles including "Interesting Akismet Stats" and "TypePad Anti Spam".
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Sep 6, 2009Since the late 2006 when I started moving to Akismet for some spam protection for this blog, it has already blocked around 930,000 spam comments. Automattic released the latest Akismet stats per blog which is accessible in the WP admin panel.
For this blog alone, Akismet had 936,274 spams caught with 31,680 legitimate comments. Had it not been with Akismet and other plugins like Spam Karma, blogs would suffer spam fatigue. And since Akismet is a centralized system, the worst they could do is attack the "central nervous system" itself and the whole thing breaks down (hack, DDOS attacks, etc).
Our coverage of akismet includes: "Interesting Akismet Stats"; "TypePad Anti Spam"; "Half a Billion Blogs on Tumblr Moving to WordPress Backend". Each article provides unique insights and information.