I’m just wondering why my Akismet spam blocked count was reset several weeks ago. I had over 33,000 spam blocked back in January 30th, 2007. Prior to that I had over 22,000 spam blocked back in December 27th, 2006.
Now, my count is at a lowly 12,533. Does anyone have an explanation as to why these numbers shrunk? Where is the count being kept? The wp_options table? I have to take a closer look at this. I’m curious more than anything.
Wow that’s a somewhat surprising figure, I think it may be because wordpress has also implemented a anti-comment spam system, and hence they block much of your spam before askimet does.