Talk:Akismet

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Might be nice to add software template to this article Foolswisdom 19:03, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What is Akismet?

I mean - what type of spam filtering is Akismet? Could you call it distributed spamfiltering? I would like to see a definition in the article, if anyone knows the answer. --MGarde 15:07, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Akismet uses a suite of heuristic techniques as well as filtering it to see if the message has attributes reported as spam by another user of the service. Arawn 22:46, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The name

Does anybody know what the name is from? It sounds Egyptian. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.60.45.14 (talk) 19:44, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Akismet is a contraction of Automattic Kismet. Our favorite definition of kismet is "Kismet (principle), the magnetic attractive force that actualizes the playing out of karma; often used in the positive sense." — FAQ << Akismet

--MGarde 19:30, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "documented example" link is fairly low quality

While it looks like the user making the report did make a good faith attempt to document his issues,

1. It looks to me like the comment settings were set to dump any comment containing a URL (not a feature of SK2 or Akismet to my knowledge)

2. The reply from the administrator stated that they were using Spam Karma 2, not Akismet, when his comments were blocked. (This may be disputed?)

Xurizaemon (talk) 20:36, 29 November 2007 (UTC)