{"id":802,"date":"2010-04-02T19:54:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T11:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.19thstep.com\/?p=802"},"modified":"2018-07-16T15:25:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T15:25:43","slug":"slaying-spam-with-akismet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/slaying-spam-with-akismet\/","title":{"rendered":"Slaying Spam with Akismet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chengduliving.com\">Chengdu Living<\/a> has been getting hammered with spam comments and trackbacks (notifications of sites linking to Chengdu Living). Fortunately, I use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akismet.com\">Akismet<\/a> and <em>none<\/em> of it actually makes it onto the site. Akismet, if you didn&#8217;t know, is a spam filtering system that compares each and every comment with an online database that checks the origin and content of the message (words, phrases, links) to determine if it&#8217;s spam. It&#8217;s very accurate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I woke up and there were 89 new comments on the site that had been auto-filtered into the spam category &#8211; each and every single day it takes me about 2 minutes to scan through those and filter out the few legitimate comments and trackbacks and delete the rest. If it weren&#8217;t for Akismet, the site would be covered in spam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And if you didn&#8217;t know &#8211; errant comments and distortion on a website will slowly kill it.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"518\" height=\"243\" src=\"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Akismet.jpg\" alt=\"Akismet\" class=\"wp-image-804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Akismet-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Akismet.jpg 518w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Chengdu Living has been getting hammered with spam comments 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