Comments on: Akismet – Comment Spam Killer

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:00:56 +0000

Um… that one got through ok.

By: Artem

Artem — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:35:57 +0000

I hate Askimet because 90% of the time it marks my messages as SPAM, even though I post normal comments in different TRAC installations.

By: John

John — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:05:31 +0000

great article! I know what I’m going to use now, thanks for making my mind up.

By: The WordPress Akismet Plugin: Configuration, advantages, disadvantages | Website In A Weekend

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:28:34 +0000

[...] great article by Rich Boakes from 2005 entitled “Akismet – Comment Spam Killer.” At Automattic’s invitation, Rich was one of the first people to evaluate the Akismet [...]

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:41:48 +0000

One way to evaluate Akismet’s success is that there’s not much recently written about it. Articles are mostly 2,3+ years old. That’s a good thing! It just works…

Thanks for keeping this article alive. I’m citing it in an article I have under development right now. You’ll get a trackback ~Aug 5 2009.

By: R.I.P. Cookies and Other Less Depressing Thoughts | Emptyeye

R.I.P. Cookies and Other Less Depressing Thoughts | Emptyeye — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:23:21 +0000

[...] news, Akismet is working nicely. I have no idea what the name actually means (According to this, it takes its name because the program is Kismet by Automattic), but Akismet is a program that [...]

By: test2 « All of the software in the world

test2 « All of the software in the world — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:51:27 +0000

[...] â€” Rich Boakes [...]

By: Test « All of the software in the world

Test « All of the software in the world — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:19:45 +0000

[...] â€” Rich Boakes [...]

By: hbgh « Jeprix Blog’s

hbgh « Jeprix Blog’s — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:29:46 +0000

[...] Spam Karma 2 atau Akismet? lihat lagi cara kerja Spam Karma 2 dan lihat review Akismet, baru tentukan pilihan [...]

By: //beconfused » Blog Archive » akismet//antispam

//beconfused » Blog Archive » akismet//antispam — Sun, 14 May 2006 09:22:44 +0000

[...] The set up isn’t hard. All you need to do is to upload the plugin and enter the WordPress.com API key. And you’re on. Actually, the WordPress.com API is the hardest part. Read more about Akismet. [...]

By: TecnoMovidas.net » Blog Archive » Akismat: Plugin para automatizar la tarea de evitar que el spam se cuele en tu blog

Fri, 14 Apr 2006 07:03:44 +0000

[...] Por su parte el plugin mostrarÃ¡ en el Panel de AdministraciÃ³n una simple lÃnea en la que se informa del nÃºmero de comentarios bloqueados y si se quieren eliminar de una vez por todas. Aqui teneis un test de rendimiento. [...]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 04:03:20 +0000

I guess thats why I use Spam Karma 2, then the Akismet plugin, which means that its a near perfect defense against spam, and I only had one comment that I had to moderate, otherwise, over 50 spam caught.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 04:02:56 +0000

I think a false positive means that sometimes akismet just thinks that one thing isnt spam, when it actually is…thats why I use Spam Karma 2, then the Akismet plugin, which means that its a near perfect defense against spam, and I only had one comment that I had to moderate, otherwise, over 50 spam caught.

By: Jax

Jax — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 14:32:58 +0000

I’m struggling with akismet and have in fact disabled it, as it took against one of my regular commenters, and despite me marking her comments not spam, kept insisting that they were. Given that you can’t see all the spam that akismet is dealing with, this is not a good situation. However, getting feedback from the programmers on this appears to be difficult

One of your links is broken btw – Aaron Brazell has moved his article http://www.technosailor.com/wordpress-misunderstanding-updated-title/

By: claus | Bad Kismet

claus | Bad Kismet — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 22:35:02 +0000

[...] problems of the Akismet approach have already been mentioned here and there (and see also this comprehensive post). I have to say so far I haven’t found a more efficient and neater product than WP-Morph. [...]

By: snapup.net/blog » Blog Archive » Howto setup Akismet to fight Wordpress Spammers

Tue, 08 Nov 2005 14:30:26 +0000

[...] ng Want Akismet? Then download Flock. Huh? On Boakes you can read some more details about how Akismet is working. [...]

By: Rich

Rich — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:31:46 +0000

There are three options.

Go to wordpress.com, enter your email address and wait.
Download the flock browser - there's some kind of deal there for getting an account, but I've not looked into it.
Write a WordPress Haiku.

By: tsr

tsr — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:20:59 +0000

I’ve been trying quite hard to find where I go to open an account on wordpress.com and thus get my API key. Am I missing something completely obvious or is this actually a difficult thing to do?

I host an installation of wordpress on my own server but would like to use Akismet. Is this even possible or is a wordpress.com account required?

By: //beconfused

//beconfused — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 09:11:38 +0000

I made a couple of changes to my blog – Akismet, WordPress 1.5.2 and web polls!

By: ionfish § Unplugged

ionfish § Unplugged — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 16:52:36 +0000

[...] sual run of plugins and the like. More importantly, it seemed simple to implement, and the numbers looked good.

There was just one catch: I needed a WordPress.com account. A golden ticket arrived in my email [...]