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20,000,000,000
Posted by DomainGang on November 23, 2010, at 6:55 pm
That’s right: 20 billion. That’s the number of spam messages caught by Akismet – the service implemented by WordPress, among other software, to combat junk. According to the Akismet blog: That’s an average of around 10 million per day over the 5 years since Akismet first launched. Currently we deal with 30 million spam comments […]
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How we cut down on the comment spam
Posted by DomainGang on June 25, 2012, at 8:57 pm
The relentless amount of comment spam that we received at DomainGang reached an all-time high of 5,541 comments in January 2012. That’s what Akismet filtered out, and yet a lot of spam commentary made it through to the comment queue for us to wade through. After installing a single plug in that requires the copy/pasting […]
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