For me, comments on my blog are just a way to add a to-do to my already too-long list of to-dos. What is the to-do? To review the comments marked as spam because about once every 100 comments or so is a legitimate comment marked as spam. And I don't want to just cancel those.

To fix commenting, we need a better solution than Akismet. I want more than probable spam, I want certain spam vs. maybe spam. I see comments that are absolutely spam — 100 links, or mentions of porn, etc — and they are listed in the admin as spam, no different than the false positives. Worse, I'll see the same comment posted to multiple posts.

It seems like a better solution would be a system that collaborates in the background with other websites — like a bittorrent for comment spam identification somehow — that can improve itself with a human component.

I know that is supposedly what Akismet does, but with a central server instead of peer-to-peer, but have they really done anything to improve it in the many years since they bought Akismet?

But of course since a central server-based subscription is a revenue source for Automattic and a non-gated peer-to-peer system is not, I don't hold out much hope for anything improving.

P.S. I would definitely blog more if I could control comment spam, but even thinking about blogging reminds me of how much comment spam I have to deal with and then I loose interest.