Finally I decided to register the plugin with Akismet. This is an application that can be used for your blogs that will reduce the number of spam comments. Last week alone I received roughly 400 spam comments. And it can be very irritating deleting them one by one.

Akismet basically stands for Automattic Kisme, is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again.

Below is some statistic as of NOW, 11.38am, 24th February 2010

14,615,802,134 spams caught so far

1,701,289 so far today

83% of all comments are spam

The signing up process is quite simple and straight-forward. You will need to register to receive an API, which is free for personal use. The API key will be emailed to you after you register. If you have multiple blogs, like myself, you can use the same API for all of them, so multiple registration is not required. All my blogs are currently running under WordPress and Akismet is working perfectly fine in blocking all spam comments.

Akismet