A screenshot of the Akismet stats graph showing the number of spam comments at ardamis.com identified by Akismet before and after my anti-spam system was implemented.
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Posted on 27 August 2011 and last updated on 22 January 2012 by Oliver Baty with tags application, blogging, coding, comment spam, database, javascript, php, programming, security, spam, templates, themes, web app, WordPress, xhtml and categorized Nonsense, Tutorials, Web Site Dev, WordPress
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