Comic is fine alright, but what is WP doing with Akismet? I have a simple plugin called WP-Captcha-Free and it does a great job of preventing the spam comments (not linkbacks though, which i have disabled). It simply checks if the comment is made by a real user from a browser. Its simple and effective - I have got no spam in the last 4-5 months that I am using it. Akismet on the other hand, blocks every tom dick and harry. There are more false positives (genuine users not able to comment on certain sites, because some rogue users have marked them as spam). Someone should tell them that there are more simpler options available.

I am reminded of the ink story - The US tried so hard and put in millions of dollars to make ballpoint pens with ink that can write on the moon. The Russians just used pencils. This applies to Akismet perfectly.

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