In reply to Jeffr0.

After all these years of algorithmic learning billions of spam comments, I’d think Akismet would be much better at discovering and discarding spam.

Spam changes pretty rapidly. Knowing spam comments from five years ago doesn't help much in detecting spam comments today, so it's more about how good of a system we can build to respond to new types of spam as soon as they appear, and I don't think we're doing that bad of a job. Akismet's accuracy rate is currently at or above 99.99%. Five years ago, it was closer to 99.8%.

That being said, it hurts every time we miss something "obvious." If you're consistently seeing spam comments that are getting past Akismet, let me (finke@automattic.com or support@akismet.com) know, and we'll address it as quickly as possible. (That goes for all readers of the Tavern too.)