Akismet Activated

August 8, 2007 – 8:41 am

When I first started this blog, it was very quiet, very clean. As days go by, more and more spam comment kept hitting my blog. I really do not understand how they could even find my blog or the permalinks of specific posts. Anyway, I tolerated them and even found some to be really funny.

Until a couple of days ago, I consistently received more than 50 email alerts of comments on the blog which are 99% spam. I don’t know why Blogger blogs could stop spam from hitting but WordPress can’t. I don’t even get as many spam from all my Blogger blogs combined since day one compared to one day on one WordPress blog.

After tolerating for seven long months where it got exceptionally bad this past couple of months, I finally moved my butt over to wordpress.com to register for an account sans blog just so that I could get the free Akismet API key. Well, I think it’s mighty redundant to have to do so. I mean, I don’t even want a wordpress.com blog and neither have I ever logged in to read other blogs. I’m not that free. I’m not bored up to that level yet.

That’s the main reason it took me this long to get the key but now that I have finally activated my Akismet, whoa, only one or two wayward spam comments managed to hit my inbox PER WEEK. It’s so effective (for now)

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