Akismet approaching 1 Billion Spam Comment Messages Blocked
You can’t stand spam. I can’t stand spam. Fortunately for us and most of the people using Wordpress, Akismet is the perfect plugin dealing with comment spam. Akismet is the brainchild of Matt Mullenweg of WordPress and his merry band of Automattic hackers. Their favorite definition of kismet is “Kismet (principle), the magnetic attractive force that actualizes the playing out of karma; often used in the positive sense.”
Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again.
The Graph below is a graph of Ham and Spam since Akismet started. “Ham” is the non-spam message in Akismet lingo
My Guess: We will hit the 1 Billion Spam comment sometime on Sunday(03/24). I will post a follow up post once we reach the 1 Billion mark.
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