I have a project I am going to start work on, but before I start, I will point out that Chiriquí Chatter has reached more than 100,000 spam comments as of yesterday. These spam comments have been averted without any annoyance to the average commenter.

They have also been averted without Chiriquí Chatter commenters having to jump through hoops to post a comment as well. Akismet is one of the best features of WordPress. The methods used are two fold. When a comment is received by the blog, Akismet checks it against known spammers.

It it isn’t found in that group and this is the first time the Email address has submitted a comment, I have this blog put it in a review queue. If I consider it a valid comment, I approve it and from then on the commenter can post comments and they will immediately appear.

If I consider it as spam, I mark it as spam and from then on all blogs using Akismet will not be bothered by the commenter.

If I am not sure if it is from a valid reader or not, but suspect it is spam, I just delete it and will wait for the commenter to comment again.

I also review all comments that are classified as spam. Akismet is very good, being 99.777% accurate according to this blog’s statistics. Still, I sometimes find a valid comment marked as spam. When I find a valid comment. I mark it as non-spam and that comment will now appear.

Well that is my post for the day. I am now going to get organized and work on my project. I will be back when the project is completed.