I very rarely talk about the spam comment status of my blog. I normally get under 10 spam comments a day, which is quite a low figure, and is one that i'm happy with. I normally navigate to the Akismet spam comments control panel and hit "delete all" after i've quickly skimmed through them. Most of the comments I get are full of pointless links and randomly placed BBcode, (presumably for mass deployment of the same comment over different site systems) but some don't contain any links in the comment body at all; just the website URL of the [spam] commenter. I am completely astounded as to how Akismet is able to catch and delete comments such as those, and it does so by asking very little from the user.
It's the one service I think my blog relies most on to stop the pointless spam infestation that resides within the internet, and I don't think the service has allowed one spam comment to be allowed live yet, that's how darn good it is. I think I highly underestimate it, and the small link situated in the "Buttons" section in my sidebar hardly gives it the credit it should have.
