I Love Akismet. Marry Me Please.
1715 days agoIf you don’t what or who Akismet is, which rock are you living under? We could perhaps join in partnership and sell that piece of rock as a lucky charm or some precious religious object to millions of devout followers. Akismet is a joint effort by the blogging community to stop spam comments. What it does is to create some sort of safety net between you and spammers by sending all comments to their servers for “checking”. So if the comment is found to be spam, it will be tagged as so and you won’t need to bother about it. But if you are a control freak, you can go and manually check each and every comment yourself.
For me, the results have been great. Please see the below screenshot. It is taken today.
It’s only been online for like 1 month or so and it has already blocked 141 spam comments, saving me hours of work to remove them from my WordPress blog. So, thanks Akismet, I really love you. The time saved by Akismet I had spent getting badly drunk and sleeping more. You should really try this too, especially if you are using blog scripts, as Akismet supports a variety of them scripts. However, if you are a professional blogger, you should buy the commercial license (or the commercial API keys) and help out the community. Of course, poor lowly untalented bloggers like yours truly can use the free API keys.
