There was one overwhelming piece of feedback from version 1.0 of the Akismet plugin for WordPress, that people wanted to be able to see the content of the comments marked as spam. This also manifested itself in a lot of “false false positives” being submitted to the system, where a comment would look legitimate except [...]
We found a small bug in the Akismet plugin under WordPress 1.5 that would cause it to throw errors when you tried to mark something as “not spam” and submit it as a false positive.
If you’ve had this problem, please download the latest version of the plugin (1.06) and let us know if that fixes [...]
Since we started tracking stats under two weeks ago, Akismet has already blocked over a hundred thousand spams for its users. I had no idea we would hit that number so quickly.
There has been a ton of great feedback on blogs thus far about Akismet, which I’ll blog about soon, but this post really stood out to me for its clever title:
Akismet Creates Comments Glasnot
Cool!
We’ve gotten a few reports of people getting a key error when submitting a false positive, and we’re trying to track [...]
8,680,381,953 spams caught so far
11,181,319 so far today
85% of all comments are spam