Akismet just saved me hours

Posted on February 6, 2008
Filed Under experiments, why wordpress, code |

Wordpress guy has been a bit lazy & distracted recently. I haven’t been updating here as often as I would have liked for a loooong time. This has led to a bit of a spam problem building up. Akismet to the rescue.

Looking at my Comments tab I see masses of unmoderated comments, the majority are likely spam. Oh no. Quick - check Akismet. Disaster - I haven’t enabled it. Now I remember, I changed wordpress.com addresses and got halfway through updating the key when I had to run. Disaster. Quick - enter the new key.

On flipping back to the comments tab, Akismet has already caught 2 NEW spam posts. Good Akismet:

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But what about those 8783 awaiting moderation, and what about the comments that got through that are spammy? Delete! Simple as that. SO apologies if you’ve left a comment recently - you’ve been deleted. You haven’t been spammed - that would be uncool - just deleted.

Normal service should now resume! btw - in the time I’ve taken to write this post Akismet has caught 44 more spam comments. Good old Akismet. Like having a cleaner!

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