I was reading an interesting post that I have seen referenced on a couple of other blogs. Jesper Rønn-Jensen on justaddwater.dk is going to turn off all comment spam protection on his blog on December 15 to highlight how much anti spam solutions help bloggers and to higlight some other things including:
* put focus on how much energy, computer power, network traffic, and manual work is wasted by the completely irrelevant comments
* put focus on spam filters and their current effectiveness
* We remove the filter a saturday, where traffic is usually lower (so the annoyance for the end-users will be as little as possible)
What an interesting idea. On my blogs i use a combination of various comment spam solutions including Akismet, Bad Behavior and on one blog Spam Karma. All prove pretty effective at preventing comment spam ever reaching my blog at all.
So i got to thinking, how much time am i saving myself by using comment spam solutions and so i had a look at what they are stopping. Over the last month there have been roughly 9000 attempts to comment spam this blog so lets say at 20 seconds a comment for me to read and decide that its spam, i am saving myself 50 hours a month deleting comment spam. Thats 100 minutes a day!
Its staggering when you take even a fraction of the time to consider how much time you are saving and what you can do instead. On a popular well rated blog i expect that the time saved would be considerably more indeed. I will not be participating in Spam Filter Free Day December 15 but i wish Jesper well.
And now its time to do something that my spam filters allow me to. Sleep.
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