Did you check your Akismet spam filter lately?

While going through my Google Reader, i stumbled upon a blog post at Paul Stamatiou’s on the importance of periodically checking the Akismet anti-spam service in the Wordpress pannel.

Akismet is a wordpress plugin that is aimed to reduce comment and trackback spam. The plugin is bundled into the default Wordpress.org installation, however ti requires the Wordpress API key to get activated (API key is avaialable after signing up with Wordpress.com).

Today, i logged to my Wordpress 2.1 CP, went to Comments>> Akismet spam, and was surprised to see that around 5 out of my 15 “spam” comments were fully legitimate.

Lesson learned: check your Akismet spam periodically ( i would say every other day) as it might have spammed legitimate stuff.

My two cents on this.

[tags] Akismet, Akismet plugin, Akismet spam[/tags]