The Doomed Kismet of Spam
I don’t sing the praises of Wordpress enough. For those of you who don’t know, Wordpress is the blogging software that powers Megorious. For any serious blogger, especially one who has his or her own domain name, Wordpress is the only way to go. You can bend it to your will to do almost anything.
If Megorious were a car, Wordpress would be the engine; the theme/design (in this case this delicious Scattered4 by Dan Cameron) would be the custom paint job; and I guess that would make Akismet the windshield wipers and fluid.
Akismet is, technically, a plugin, but it’s really so much more than that. It’s an angel sent down from the heavens by bloGod, the passive aggressive God of blogging.
92% of all comments online are spam. Akismet has one purpose: to orchestrate a spam holocaust. And it does it to near perfection. Without it, I would literally spend hours a week dealing with spam. Actually, without Akismet, I wouldn’t blog.
Even since my site traffic more than quadrupled back in July (thanks to The Dark Knight and The Upper Crust) comment spam has increased a whopping 500%. I get anywhere from 150 to 200 spam comments a day. Thanks to Akismet, I don’t have to waste a single second of my day dealing with spam. If I get 1000 spam comments in a week, no more than five or six will actually slip through the cracks. I can deal with that. Akismet stops 99.9% of all comment spam on Megorious.
Thank you bloGod, for damning spam to its doom.
