In the 18 months since I’ve installed Akismet on this site, it has now edged past 3 quarters of a million spam stopped…
Saved me 750,000 clicks, say I had to delete them individually, and say it takes approximately 2 seconds to delete a comment what with the click, page reload etc, this saved me 17 days of constant clicking… Not too shabby… Especially since a year ago it was only around 20,000.
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3 responses to “Spammed a Lot?”
Thats an amazing amount of spam…I thought I had a lot with my 40,000 or so spams! I also think 2 secs is fairly conservative so time saved is a lot more.
Isn’t it? Most places I’ve seen with that Akismet badge have a count in the tens of thousands, I guess spammers are drawn to either a) my hot hot content or b) me having scam in my url, it also means I have more deleted spam on my blog than Matt Mullenweg… Take that PhotoMatt!
If it takes 3 seconds to delete a single spam, it then becomes 26 (TWENTY SIX!) full days of deleting spam to get rid of them, crazy huh?
4 seconds becomes 34 days, over a month… Jeez, thank god for the delete all button
I’ve been blogging for over 5 years and haven’t received anything like that much spam. Seriously.