Comments on: Spam Stats

By: Nils’ Geek World » Akismet Blog Spam Statistics

Nils’ Geek World » Akismet Blog Spam Statistics — Sat, 27 May 2006 07:54:53 +0000

[...] The Guys over at akismet.com have published statistics about the number of spam and legitimate comments they see. Roughly, spam outnumbers “ham” by about a factor of ten these days. They really should start reporting comment spam to ISPs, the same way that Spamcop does. I’m going through my spam-email and report it, I surely would be willing to do the same with comment spam. Just filter out exact dupes, pleas. [...]

By: Nils

Nils — Sat, 27 May 2006 07:44:44 +0000

I can personally vouch for the huge increase in spam in the past few weeks. It’s insane. But I, being a sucker for nice graphs, would also like to see an “average spams/hams per akismet user” graph

By: FileVille Blog » Blog Archive » Akismet Plugin Upgrade

FileVille Blog » Blog Archive » Akismet Plugin Upgrade — Thu, 25 May 2006 13:11:29 +0000

[...] Akismet also has been busy with creating a stat page. I am glad I use Akismet! No Tags [link] [Trackback] [] [ (?)] [...]

By: Matt Mullenweg

Matt Mullenweg — Wed, 24 May 2006 19:10:02 +0000

Ham is regular comments.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 24 May 2006 12:43:15 +0000

Oh… That’s for the graph you have on the site, would I have to do a chart to make it work? Is there a version with just the stats today’s spam, total spam / ham, etc? Thanks… At least it works again.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 24 May 2006 08:24:29 +0000

Great feature! Can I just ask a stupid question: what’s ham? :-S

By: Matt Mullenweg

Matt Mullenweg — Wed, 24 May 2006 03:53:21 +0000

Joe, sorry we had some server probs and the stats page was messed up for about 30 minutes. It should be working now.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 24 May 2006 00:57:00 +0000

Thanks Matt. One problem though, when I load the page you gave it comes up blank. No source, and nothing in the browser. What happened? Thanks…

By: Sphere It! Service, Search Engines, Blog Syndication, and Blah at JG etc.

Sphere It! Service, Search Engines, Blog Syndication, and Blah at JG etc. — Wed, 24 May 2006 00:33:42 +0000

[...] Another place a technology like ‘Sphere It’ could get interesting is with a partner like Feedburner. Feedburner will soon have 300,000 feeds in it’s index. No one has a deeper understanding of their index(publishers and their readers) and can give better on-demand analytics. So imagine if you have a content semantic tool like ‘Sphere It’, with a dynamic, spam free, and smart index like FeedBurner. And what if Feedburner allowed for people to upload their ‘blog icon’, develop an identity around their feed, ala ‘claim your blog’ on Technorati. (I think this is one issue that Dave Winer is starting to get worried about when he talks about the centralization of so many feeds, and maybe rightly so . But I don’t think we can blame Feedburner for being the brilliant technology and marketing company that put the ‘Really Simple Syndication’ in Feeds.) This new smart index could follow memes and could provide ‘conservation around news’ on demand by popularity/relevance(basing this off the number of times that the feed has been called, links, etc.), or by timeliness(who was the last person talking about X). Who needs an index of 40 million, especially if you can’t really make sense of it? Hell, turn on MySpace and some of these other “blog” hosted sites and you could have an index of 200 million blogs and you could spend all day monitoring your ping servers.(With 80% of blog comments being spam, what percentage of your typical blog index do you think is spam? How many are dead/irrelevant?) If the goal is to provide relevant/JIT syndicated conversations across a major news site there is no need to draw from the millions. Feedburner’s index will continue to grow relative to blogging and the demographics of the index will continue to look more like the overall blogger demographic. Since they provide so many good tools and so many of their users spend a lot of time on their site, setting up profiles would be ntohing more than adding a tab to the users dashboard. [...]

By: Matt Mullenweg

Matt Mullenweg — Tue, 23 May 2006 18:14:13 +0000

Gunnar, the growth of users hasn’t nearly paced the growth of spam, as you can see by the “ham” numbers.