I barely get any. That’s good, right? Maybe not. Spammers not even attempting to litter my post comments with crap…where’s the love?
For the fun of it I loaded up Spam Karma 2 for the following reasons:
- see what it has to offer
- combat the one or two I seem to get per month
- it’s an alternative to Akismet
SK2 seems to be doing a nice job, although it has not been hit hard so I’m still in a period of evaluation with it.
Akismet is an interesting beast I’ve yet to try. I don’t feel like I need get a WordPress.com hosted blog just to get a key to use Akismet. Unless I ditched the fine services of TextDrive, maybe I’d consider getting some hosting from WordPress. The WordPress.com site, as of February 9th, 2006, indicates they have over 96,000 bloggers being hosted. Very impressive numbers. I hope it continues to climb.
But how many of those blogs are WordPress.com parasites? Meaning, the person just signed up just to get an Akismet API key for use on their own non-WordPress.com hosted blog? Makes me wonder…I’ve considered it, so I’m sure there are parasites out there…how many are unused blogs?
Maybe 10-20% tops, but that’s okay. They don’t cost anything, and we hide inactive blogs from the different listings. It’s like asking how many empty livejournals are there created just so people can comment on other LJs? It doesn’t matter, accounts are accounts. If it’s activated, there’s still a person behind it.
Matt:
Thanks for the information. I was curious about that.
10,000 to 20,000 blogs using Akismet outside the realm of WordPress.com is still an interesting statistic. I wonder if that percentage will still hold true a year from now…