Yesterday, while Javamancy and Javamancy mini were chugging happily away, servicing you, our kind readers, WordPress.com had apparently suffered a multi-hour system outage.
One of the fine services that we use is Akismet, and according to the Akismet blog, it was unaffected by the recent WordPress.com system outage. This is obviously a Good Thing, since many [...]
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The Akismet folks mentioned yesterday via a post on their blog about CAPTCHA conversion rates, as discussed at the SEOmoz blog. While the very informal study done by the author of the SEOmoz blog post had a very small sampling (some statisticians may even say, “Whoa! Statistically insignificant!”), and the sampling methods were arguably questionable, [...]
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Some of you have mentioned to me whether the general consensus is that Akismet is doing enough to protect WordPress systems from comment spam. A post that came out earlier today certainly puts into question whether there have been some false positives flaring up; of course, that post states that the bug belongs to WordPress [...]
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