Akismet Interface
We’ve got two improvements to the Akismet interface for you guys today.
The first is on the spam screen, there are now tabs that filter by what type of spam it is, namely a comment, pingback, or trackback. This allows you to scan more quickly through pingbacks and trackbacks, especially.
(Remember that just because it’s linking to you doesn’t mean it’s not spam. Beware of compliments too! Always visit the URL, see if it’s mostly advertising or looks auto-generated.)
Also to help keep the size of your Akismet queue down, we’ve started to discard spam on posts older than a month, which our statistics show are overwhelmingly spam. Of course if your spam queue doesn’t get that large and you’d like to turn this option off, just check the new option under Options > Discussion:
Posted: Thursday, January 17th, 2008 at 5:11 pm. Filed in New Features.
Tags: akismet, anti-spam, interface
Jan 18th at 10:52 pm
I get lots of spam. I like Akismet a lot!
Jan 18th at 11:03 pm
That it’s great, this is very useful tool, this gona make more easier separate spam from some coments are taged like spam, ¡Akismet you rock! Thanks a lot for this
Jan 19th at 1:03 am
Its alot easier! Thanks!!
Jan 19th at 1:32 am
Thank you for the option to turn off the discarding of spam on old posts. I’ve turned off comments and pingbacks to some old posts to cut down on spam, but I have a few that still get legitimate hits and comments. I do still get false positives, so I like to skim through them before deleting.
Jan 19th at 1:53 am
uhh my spam counter thing is… like in the 80′s and I have only had 5 spam comments…
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~Adam…
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Jan 19th at 2:10 am
cool new stuff as always.
- Lo
Jan 19th at 4:33 am
Thank God for your spam controls! There is some truly horrid stuff out there, and you make sure it never hits my viewers eyes.
Jan 19th at 5:24 am
Neat.
Jan 19th at 8:22 am
cool
Jan 19th at 9:45 am
thanks for the explaination on the “discard” option, Matt !!
Jan 19th at 3:11 pm
Why write spam comments, if they are going to be discard, what a waste of
your time. Has anyone told you that you only got so much time in your life,
then its over, so don’t waste it.
Jan 19th at 4:13 pm
I love what you did here, Matt, because it’s actually brought the spam down quite a bit…even in the trackback/ping area too. Thank you for all your hard work keeping us all happy and our blogs running smoothly!
Jan 19th at 5:23 pm
nice
Jan 20th at 12:08 am
Yeah, I agree with وحید .
The spamming filter alone has kept me here.
Jan 20th at 1:43 am
Thanks for making our blogging easier to do!
Jan 20th at 6:37 am
Daaaaaang…. Thought I was hardcore…. You know, there’s always Blogger.
Jan 20th at 10:09 am
Hey bro…. Thx for sharing..
Jan 20th at 11:33 am
The best spam filter !!! Thank you for your work guys.
Jan 20th at 12:43 pm
I really think that this is blocking most of the normal comments of my blog. I used to have new comments everyday but not anymore…
Jan 20th at 1:38 pm
Really good feature! I just came to know that ‘pingback’ can be spam too
Jan 20th at 5:36 pm
Thanks Akismet,Good Bless you
Jan 20th at 11:57 pm
I really appreciate akismet!
Jan 21st at 11:33 am
Excellent move with the spam on old posts – thank you, Akismet!
Jan 21st at 12:42 pm
Matt, Akismet works great. Can we get a feature to report blog spam to the relevant ISPs? Maybe then they can start to shut down the botnets and/or dialups used for the spam.
Jan 21st at 3:06 pm
Yet to check its results !
But in general looks cool !
Jan 21st at 4:17 pm
Blogging without worrying the spam = akismet. Many thanks, again and again.
Jan 21st at 7:35 pm
Very good tool.
Many thanks!
Jan 22nd at 12:53 am
Thanks! Very Helpful!
Jan 22nd at 3:55 am
good toys, some people need more features..
thanks guys
Jan 22nd at 10:01 pm
I’m new to Word Press, but I like the Idea. Word Press seems like a good community to make connections. Thanks Bob
Jan 22nd at 10:31 pm
Is ‘Always visit the URL’ sensible advice? Don’t people set up pages with malware on them and then post comments and send pingbacks coming from these pages as a way to lure people to sites that will infect their computers? I would tend to say instead: if in doubt, don’t visit the URL.
Jan 24th at 4:32 am
Sounds good
Jan 24th at 9:05 am
Well i am using wordpress from a year. It’s all new features and enhanced functions is making it more reliable and user friendly. Moreover the CMS or interface is quite simpler and easy to use.
Thanks to WordPress Team.
Jan 25th at 7:55 am
I think that without akismet blogs would be unmanageable! Thanks!
Jan 25th at 3:51 pm
nice tool
I like it
Jan 26th at 12:48 pm
I looked at the comments Akismet had said were spam and it turned out that both of them were proper comments from nice people!!!
Jan 29th at 4:45 am
Good jobs guys! I’m really happy with Akismet.
Jan 30th at 10:31 am
Thanks for the update. It just keeps getting better. I <3 WordPress!