Spam Catcher

Why is installing a spam catcher in a blog a good step? A spam catcher catches spam comments that would otherwise be caught in your comments section which you have to delete one after the other. These either contain nonsense words, key words that bloggers wouldn’t want to be associated with or videos about the different anatomical parts of the human species 😉
Our main blog, TeacherJulie.com blog had to swim through a lot of spam emails/comments that go through the posts’ comments. The task of removing thee cuaght spam comments was tedious, to say the least. I had to select/approve those that are legit comments and delete those that were not. Wasted time, wasted resources.

The task was daunting and tiring. And time-consuming too. As of today, there are 31,000+ spam comments caught by the spam catcher installed.

Update: there are 54,000+ spam comments caught by my spam catcher.

There are two or three that slips through the spam catcher daily but we are not complaining so far. Such as there are also two or three legit comments that are caught as spam but since these bloggers are kind enough to tell me that they have been considered as spam, we try to retrieve their comments.

Even if we have to scan through hundreds.

What is your Spam Catcher called?

Mine is called Akismet.