I keep getting blown away by how awesome Akismet is. I run a number of different blogs and without Akismet spam management would just innundate me with work. Akismet has kept all my blogs clean for years and year; and you don’t realise just how awesome it is until you see all the spam that it has captured for you. For example, on Ugh!!’s Greymatter Honeypot Akismet has caught more than 150,000 spam comments. Imagine the time and effort that would have been needed if I were to try and manage those comments myself.

I must admit, with that volume of spam, I don’t actually check my spam folder for false positives. There might have been an important comment about New Orleans hotel deals while I was going there, but I just wouldn’t have picked it up. The reality is, however, that with that amount of spam, I’m winning in the long run anyway.