Posts Tagged ‘Anti-Spam Bee’

Akismet Free Ride Ends

Tuesday, January 8th, 2019

For almost as long as I was using this blog, I’ve been using the free Akismet spam filter. Well, the free ride has finally ended, as they actually want $5 a month to use it now. I’m not complaining, as a man’s got to eat. But this is why I had several hundred WordPress moderate comment emails today.

Since my blog is currently a slightly-money-losing proposition, I have no desire to deepen my losses, so I just moved to the free Antispam Bee for this blog and Futuramen. Dwight is evidently paying the $5 a month for Akismet for his blog, so we can compare after a month or so and see if there’s a noticeable difference between the two.

Anyway, on the off-chance you submitted a blog comment after, say, 11:58 AM today, you might have to repost it.

And maybe somebody can explain why most of my comment spam seemed to come from an Omaha injury lawyer…