I am a: Quirky sysadmin. Geek. Gamer. Comic fangirl. My little space, my home on the interwebs. I blog about personal stuffs, work, various coding projects, and anything else I feel like.

I don’t remember why I never installed it, but a few months ago I finally installed (or rather, activated) Akismet for WordPress.  Actually, now that I think about it, I think it was because I didn’t have an API key … but anyways …

It’s been a God-send.  Don’t get me wrong, Bad Behavior has been a good little soldier too.  But it couldn’t catch everything, and was unfortunately blocking a lot of valid traffic.  BUT, after installing Akismet, my spam comments and trackbacks went from a steady stream to nil.  I did notice, however that I had received a bit of an “attack” … over the past 48 hours, there have been over 400 spam comment post attempts — I say ‘attempts’ because they had slipped through Bad Behavior, but Akismet caught ’em. 

Check it out, over the last 3 months, it’s blocked exactly 1000:

Sweet. :D