Akismet Overloaded (Down?) & Slowing Blog…

May 28th, 2006 Akismet is a spam prevention plugin from the WordPress author, Matt Mullenweg. It uses collective wisdom in filtering spams.

June 26th, 2008 Twitter seems to be having serious scalability issues, a malaise which plagued the otherwise popular service since its early days. Could this be related to its architectural decision of adopting Ruby-on-Rails? There was a rumor not so long ago that twitter was abandoning Ruby on Rails.

May 14th, 2006 This blog is being flooded with P0ker spam comments. Obviously they aren't getting through.

April 7th, 2006 Akismet is WordPress hosted spam filter from Matt M. I have been using it for about a week now.

April 30th, 2006 I have been using Akismet plugin for about a month. One of the key deficiency of the plugin is occassional false positives (falsely flagging non-spam as spam) & false negatives (failing to identify spam).

January 30th, 2008 Imagine Company X provides a service. X is nice enough to offer it for free to education and non-profit sites.

April 8th, 2006 I took a look at the data we are sending to Akismet, a WordPress plugin for comment spam protection, for each comment submitted on your blog, if you use this plugin for comment spam prevention. I have recently started using Akismet, a WordPress plugin from WordPress author Matt Mullenweg.

January 16th, 2007 I have experiemented with all the available WordPress plugins for comment spam protection including but not limited to Bad Behaviour, Spam Karma 2, Akismet and built-in WordPress features like blacklists and moderation queue. We have to deal with tens of thousands of spam everyday.

December 20th, 2007 Akismet continues to get in spams approved these days while sometimes rejecting valid comments on my blog. To give you a small sample, here are some of the comments which passed through Akismet plugin today - Note: Adult stuff ahead...

August 29th, 2007 We have the Comment Guard plugin on all of our blogs with the latest version. Comment Guard is our fool-proof solution to eliminate comment spam from automated bots, which constitute over 90% of comments.

August 27th, 2007 One of the good reason is that one (or more) of the servers you ping after you publish a post has gone down or is overloaded. When you publish a new post, WordPress automatically notifies the configured ping servers that your site has been updated.

June 13th, 2009 We are about to release a new blog (WordPress) comment spam protection software. It has been extensively tested for over two months.

June 3rd, 2006 I have been getting a deluge of spams in the last 7 days or so, 19434 spams so far in Akismet queue of this blog alone. However something very interesting happened.

August 24th, 2005 Freespire is a new free Linux distribution from Linspire. It is Linspire with all proprietary components and trademarks removed.

October 31st, 2005 Matt, author of WordPress blogging software, has released an anti-spam plugin for WordPress - Automattic Spam Stopper (now renamed as AKismet) Bad Behavior, a competing rather effective comment spam prevention plugin, author nicknamed IOError posted a review which points out some obvious downsides of such centralized spam filtering mechanisms like: 1. Privacy concern - all your comments are send to Matt's server for human inspection 2.