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92% of all comments are spam

13 Oct

Akismet is a spam filtering service for blog comments and trackbacks. Here is that they say in their site:

We can’t stand spam.

Who can? You have better things to do with your life than deal with the underbelly of the Internet. Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again.

dasBlog recently added Akismet support for spam filtering. I previously had Captcha enabled. Apart from some weird comment spam, this blog was spam free.

I always hated Captcha. It makes the commenter work harder for your benefit. I have not bothered to comment in a few blogs which had difficult to read Captcha.

So I thought I should disable the weird twisted text users have to enter and use Akismet instead. First I wanted to see if the small traffic to my blog attracts spam. I disabled Captcha and had not spam protection. Within an hour I had about 50 comment spams. Looks like my blog is popular after all. ;-)

Then I setup Akismet with moderation. I found that there were no false positives. Nice. Now I have put it in automatic delete mode. Now with Captcha out of the way I hope to see more comments from my readers. :-)

PS. The title of this post is from the stats I found at Akismet.

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12 Comments

Posted in Software, dasBlog

 
 
 

  1. Karthik

    October 13, 2006 at 11:00 AM

    Hi Vasanth,

    Could you please tell me how to implement akismet in dasblog? I looked at the source but couldn’t find any reference to akismet?

     

  2. Tom Watts

    October 14, 2006 at 12:40 AM

    Hi Vasanth, I am one of your readers, glad to hear Akismet is working for you.

    Cheers
    Tom from the dasBlog gang!

     

  3. Vasanth

    October 16, 2006 at 5:58 AM

    Karthik,

    The akismet stuff is there only in the recent daily builds not in the 1.9 release. You do not have to look at the code. It is configurable from the configuration screen.

    Tom,

    Yep, very happy with it now. Thanks to the dasBlog gang’s efforts.

     

  4. Karthik

    October 16, 2006 at 5:23 PM

    Vasanth,

    Thanks for the information. I have also implemented akismet in my blog.

     

  5. Vasanth

    October 16, 2006 at 6:11 PM

    Cool

     

  6. Priya

    October 19, 2006 at 12:04 AM

    please contact me at the email id pdma83@yahoo.com

     

  7. Vasanth

    October 22, 2006 at 6:10 AM

    Why?

     

  8. Shakti Mehra

    November 1, 2006 at 8:26 AM

    Well, commenting on your blog after a long time. was just too busy in exams. anyway, that captcha thing was really annoying. after reading this post of yours, even I have enabled akismet on my new blog :-) after all I got time to make a blog. the tough part is whether I’d be able to keep it alive.

     

  9. Vamsi

    November 1, 2006 at 5:04 PM

    Good one Vazzz

     

  10. Vasanth

    November 1, 2006 at 8:50 PM

    Shakti,

    Good luck with the blog.

     

  11. Shakti Mehra

    November 2, 2006 at 12:47 AM

    Thanks,
    and plz keep posting. I really wanna comment as I’ll be able to till december only. then pre-boards again. :-(

     

  12. Vasanth

    November 2, 2006 at 11:56 AM

    Sure. I really should get off this blogging block. :-)