When do you think Akismet will hit 1,000,000,000 spams blocked? ¶
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Dave | March 22nd, 2007 @ 8:00 am |
Is there a running number of how many have been caught so far? I know the 500 or so from my blog doesn’t amount to a hill of beans! Still, I’ve been extremely happy with the effectiveness of Askimet.
Sly | March 22nd, 2007 @ 8:06 am |
Well I don’t know, but with all the spam I’m getting lately I think that that moment isn’t far away.
CT | March 22nd, 2007 @ 8:10 am |
Whenever it does, you need to have Mike Meyers on standby, in his Dr. Evil gear, ready to declare: “One BILL-E-ON spams!”
nanunanu | March 22nd, 2007 @ 8:15 am |
I think Akismet will hit 1,000,000,000 spam in 2009 sometime. But that’s a projected growth. If more people created wordpress blogs and activated the akismet then it will jump but I don’t see that happening. So sometime in 2009, akismet will hit it’s 1 billionth spam block.
nanunanu | March 22nd, 2007 @ 8:18 am |
I retract my phrase after futher inspection, the total at aksimet is “Total spam: 984,726,157″. So I am going tomorrow, the 1 billionth spam will come.
Chris | March 22nd, 2007 @ 8:18 am |
Next week on my blog alone….
Can you come up with something similar to stop that poxy Elliot Back plugin being used to steal my posts? I’m getting really sick of seeing them appear all over the web…
That’d be a plugin I’d pay for!
brokenshardz | March 22nd, 2007 @ 8:19 am |
I say that it will be within 2 days, seeing the trend at which spam is increasing each day.
stephen o'grady | March 22nd, 2007 @ 8:21 am |
couldn’t say, but we’re doing our part
Dan Atkinson | March 22nd, 2007 @ 8:25 am |
We should hit this awful awful milestone within the next 18 hours. That’s my bet.
About 09:00 UTC (Friday 23) if you want an exact time!
Yazeed | March 22nd, 2007 @ 8:29 am |
Saturday! early morning
Titanas | March 22nd, 2007 @ 8:38 am |
I wish Akismet will NEVER hit 1bn spams, meaning that spam message will die die die in the next 3-5 years.
Bill | March 22nd, 2007 @ 8:44 am |
Noon CST tomorrow (3/23)
Ike | March 22nd, 2007 @ 9:19 am |
Saturday morning, 7:05am, Zulu time.
Steve | March 22nd, 2007 @ 9:29 am |
Unfortunately very very soon.
We only started our blog last week so we haven’t yet got a large visitor base, but the number of spam emails we get are unbelievable.
Steve
Matt Ellsworth | March 22nd, 2007 @ 9:38 am |
I’m not sure – but I bet at the rate that my blogs seem to get spam – some of them at about 200 per day – even with askimet enabled and user registration required. But Askimet blocks 99.99% of it – so its all good… thanks to that handy delete all button
diffuze | March 22nd, 2007 @ 9:46 am |
It’s blocked 5800 spam so far on my blog since early may last year.
I’m guessing that we’ll hit 1 Billion within a few days.
Patrick Havens | March 22nd, 2007 @ 9:50 am |
Well tax day would be appropriate.
Liam | March 22nd, 2007 @ 10:10 am |
Doubt it’ll be much longer, I mean I ended up with 80 being caught within the first hour of my first post on my blog.
I wish that there was something more we could do to block them – even though askimet is very good, it’d be nice to eliminate it before even them.
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John Lloyd | March 22nd, 2007 @ 12:11 pm |
I’m not sure when it’ll hit 10^9, but I am sure that I appreciate the 1000s from which Akismet has protected my blogs.
Pierro | March 22nd, 2007 @ 12:13 pm |
more than 100 cought on my blog today!
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Matteo | March 22nd, 2007 @ 12:44 pm |
WOW, great Akismet!!!!!!!!
But the SPAM is too much…
Pi | March 22nd, 2007 @ 12:52 pm |
As at the time of writing Akismet has blocked 13,315 spams, many of which I have never seen since I also employ a close comments plug in.
I’d go for within the next 24 hours.
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Niko Neugebauer | March 22nd, 2007 @ 2:08 pm |
Saturday at 00:00 or 00:01 =O)
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David | March 22nd, 2007 @ 2:48 pm |
Akismet nailed 13.000+ on my site so far.
Worst day: today 800+
Thank giant spaghettimonster we have akismet
Matt | March 22nd, 2007 @ 3:09 pm |
Hmm, tomorrow should be the mark of 1 billion SPAM messages.
Camilo Alvarez | March 22nd, 2007 @ 3:19 pm |
Its wierd, i never recieve one spam comment, i dont have any protection (akismet, captchas, etc). Maybe my page its so impopular, even for the spambots
Lucas McDonnell | March 22nd, 2007 @ 5:14 pm |
I was getting around 100+ spam per day — after installing Bad Behaviour, I have literally had 1 spam in a week. This is seriously the best plugin I’ve ever installed for blocking spam — and no, unfortunately I didn’t create it.
David | March 22nd, 2007 @ 5:20 pm |
In exactly 26 hours 32 minutes from the timestamp on this comment.
kates | March 22nd, 2007 @ 5:31 pm |
Whoever predict when that billionth spam arrive will spam free for a month.
Jesper Rønn-Jensen | March 22nd, 2007 @ 5:34 pm |
My guess is in exactly 14 hours from now.
45 days ago we passed 100,000 blocked spam comments on our blog. Since then, Akismet has blocked 50,000 spam comments on our blog.
Unfortunately, Akismet is not completely effective, so on an average day, 3-10 comments actually slip through.
Mike | March 22nd, 2007 @ 5:43 pm |
March 23, 2007, at about 1400 CST (U.S.A). The current count is about 988,750,000, with over 11,500,000 caught today.
Without Askimet, I’d have to turn off blog comments – and that’s no fun!
J. Pisano | March 22nd, 2007 @ 5:49 pm |
Wow, what a simple post with a great question that provokes so much thought and commentary.
Really, based on the 1, SPAMS a got TODAY, it can’t be long at all!
Joe Pisano MUSicTECHnology.net
http://www.mustech.net
J. Pisano | March 22nd, 2007 @ 5:49 pm |
Should read 1000 spams!
Elron Steele | March 22nd, 2007 @ 6:05 pm |
“Akismet has caught 50,499 spam for you since you first installed it.”
Thats since July 2006 roughly, for a blog that gets a couple hundred visitors a day. I expect that globally, its gotta be close to 1 billion now.
Avinash | March 22nd, 2007 @ 7:43 pm |
One Billion Spams!? Holy cow! Now a days, I see people talking about huge spam counts.. TechCrunch hit 1 million(?) a few days ago.
Thank God, Akismet is there to protect us! Otherwise I’d really feel pissed off only in 4999 spam comments (February 2007 to present) on my blog.
Rusty Ranchero | March 22nd, 2007 @ 9:07 pm |
Last week! Doese Akismet stop forum spam bots too? We could surely use that as well.
Mr.Byte | March 22nd, 2007 @ 11:47 pm |
The 1 billionth spam gonna coincide with the shut down day. As everybody shuts down their comp for a day, the bots gonna be busy spamming
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Andre | March 23rd, 2007 @ 1:41 am |
It would take 24 hours to hit it. There appears to be a drastic increase in SPAM over the past week. Why I am not certain but Akismet is hitting about 4-500 a day for the last week off my blog. That is far higher than any other week that I recall.
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Andy | March 23rd, 2007 @ 5:47 am |
I installed a shoutbox on my blog yesterday and within the hour was being hit by drug spam in it, so I had to make it usable by registered site members only. So I’d say, yeah, very soon I would expect that significant mark to be reached… Man, how much crap is that? How much slave labour went into compiling all those spams?
Max | March 23rd, 2007 @ 5:55 am |
On 26th of March. You all owe me a beer
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Jason Hoffman | March 23rd, 2007 @ 12:33 pm |
That’s awesome Matt. Well done.
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Peter | March 23rd, 2007 @ 7:23 pm |
Spam grows exponentially. I have a lightly-traffic’d blog, and got over 2000 spams this week alone. It took me something like the first three months to get the first 2000.
So, a better question would be, when do you expect Akismet to reach 1,000,000,000,000 blocked spams? (1 Trillion in North American terms)
Jonathan | March 23rd, 2007 @ 8:08 pm |
It’s almost there!!!!
Matt | March 24th, 2007 @ 2:34 am |
It just passed a few minutes ago!
Viper007Bond | March 24th, 2007 @ 6:04 am |
Holy crap…
Maureen Francis | March 24th, 2007 @ 10:50 am |
Now the question is when will it register 2 billion?
Avinash | March 24th, 2007 @ 2:19 pm |
I’m shocked to see the speed!
And the funniest thing is that even spammers are creative! Sometimes, I check my spam messages and feel like laughing.
Ike | March 24th, 2007 @ 2:27 pm |
Hey Matt… what do I win?
Mike | March 24th, 2007 @ 3:21 pm |
One billion, wow — you are making the internet a better place for everyone to enjoy, thanks Matt.
Matt | March 24th, 2007 @ 11:34 pm |
Wow, did you ever think you’d see the day, when 1 Billion SPAMs were caught, while it was being developed?
What you should do is have an actual live counter, that would increase without the need for refreshes.
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Jan Stedehouder | March 25th, 2007 @ 9:19 am |
With 5.000 spamposts being caught by Akismet in the last week (15.000 since I started the weblog last fall) I can’t even start to say how much I appreciate this tools. It wouldn’t have been possible to run a weblog at all without it.
Thanks. Keep on snatching them
TW | March 25th, 2007 @ 5:41 pm |
I am in a similar boat to Jan. I have a low traffic site (maybe 300 visitors a day at best) but get nearly 2000 spam posts (trackbacks, pings and comments) a week. Without Akismet, I have no idea what I would do. (Sadly around 2-3 a week sneak past the filters but I can live with that!)
Well done Akismet!
(as for the 95% of all comments being spam, it is probably higher on my blog…
)
Steven Roddis | March 26th, 2007 @ 1:27 am |
1,016,448,365
(16,425 in the last two months on my blog)
Carl T | March 26th, 2007 @ 3:31 pm |
It seems to be 100% effective so far. None through and no false positives but I am not a big site (yet). It will clearly reach X00,000,000,000…. It will just take time. The only thing that will stop that number is if spam somehow vanishes over night. I wish Akismet luck but if spam goes I won;t feel sorry for Akismet.
Alison Moore Smith | March 26th, 2007 @ 4:46 pm |
I have never left spam in my life, but about three weeks ago akismet got me banned from all the WP blogs I post on. I contacted them and was told “it is self-correcting” and “should be adapting soon.” Great, after three weeks.
So…I think they’ll hit it any second because they’re calling a heck of a lot of stuff spam, that isn’t.
Matt | March 27th, 2007 @ 9:42 am |
Alison, the fact that your comment got through here with no problems means that the system was, indeed, self-correcting. You weren’t caught by Akismet.
I can’t speak to your problems on other sites, so maybe there is something else in play that is causing your comments not to appear.
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Nicholas Lee | March 28th, 2007 @ 1:37 am |
Would be interesting to see a line on there for the number of actual blogs protected. Could see if there was a relative increase in the amount per blog of spam.
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