Akismet first catch a false positive |
Loading ...Over at my Wordpress.com demo blog this morning I noticed in the admin area that Akismet believed it caught my first comment spam:
Unfortunately for Akismet, it turns out it was not spam. How ironic that the very first comment Akismet nabs is a false positive. It was a link from the IRC logs from one of our web radio shows. On a positive note, however, Matt and his team included the ability to mark it as “not spam.” There is also another tab along the top “Manage” subcategory of the admin area marked “Akismet Spam (x)”:
Akismet has their own Zeitgeist running which tells you the stats (real time or cached, Matt?). As of this writing Akismet has caught 493,411 spams, 4,707 so far today and reports that 81% of all comments are spam. It doesn’t report the false positive numbers which would be another interesting stat to add. Maybe they will add that in the future.
For those curious about Wordpress.com, it is now available for anybody to setup an account to check out.
[…] These numbers seem more realistic to me than other reports on comment spam. I’d say the numbers for targeted PR blogs are more like 95%+ are spam, at least according to our own filters. Akismet is free to blogs that do less than $500 USD/month in revenue and was first reviewed at Hmm in December and then mentioned the false positive concerns to Matt directly at Northern Voice in February. share/bookmark: MyWeb | del.icio.us | digg it! […]
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