92% of All Comments Are Spam

That sounds about right.  I’m currently getting about 50 comments posted a day in my blog and on average 5 of them are legit.  I get the 92% number from the Akismet homepage, which I just finished installing.  I generally spend about 15 minutes/day filtering through comment spam and although that doesn’t seem like a lot, it’s much more than I’d like.

What I’d really like to know is how effective the poker, viagra, and home mortgage comments are.  I’m anxious to see how effective the Akismet service is in filtering out all the crap and I’m glad it exists.  I’ll post as I learn more about it and if you’re running WordPress then installing Akismet is a breeze.