Akismet - My Shield Against the Evil Spam
How I promised to one of my best friends I will write an article about Akismet when I will receive 1000 spam comments on my blog. So that day is became…

Beginning
When I started my blog (May 2006) of course there was no problem with the spam - no readers, no traffic, no links to my blog - no nothing. But times went on and I started to receive those annoying irritating, evil spam comments about selling drugs and extension of some parts of human (man) body.
Fight
In the beginning I deleted these comments manually, but they was so much I couldn’t fight with them by my self - I was desperate. I started to search for some script, service or something else to win this battle onse and for all - and I found it!
Victory
After reading some blog posts about Akismet (don’t remember which ones) I found that the best way how to fight with spam is Akismet and now I think I made the right decision. For about four months I have to delete manually only about 5 spam comments that was escaped from Akismet traps so I recommend this service to other bloggers also. Thank you Akismet team!
[tags]akismet, spam[/tags]


krizdabz Says:
October 11th, 2006 at 11:40 pmI am using Spam Karma. AFAIK Akismet is much simpler, but i prefer Spam Karme.. Using it for about 8 months and no problems so far..
Shankar Ganesh Says:
June 9th, 2007 at 3:35 amAkimset is a good one, but the fact is that it catches genuine comments some times. Other than that, it’s a very useful plugin.