Why wait for Thanksgiving to give thanks? I’m in the mood to start early. I guess the smell of a freshly shot wild turkey baking in the oven last night must have triggered that thought this morning upon my awakening?
Today, I’d like to thank the people who created Akismet. Non-bloggers might not know what Akismet is. I call it a blog’s bouncer. Why? Because a bouncer’s primary task is to keep underage, intoxicated, aggressive, and otherwise disqualified individuals from entering an establishment. Some clubs also require their bouncers to screen clients.
Most of the time I keep comments closed. Whenever I’m up to it, I may on some rare occasions briefly enable commenting. That’s when the doors to my establishment open and ‘Mr. Akismet’ does his job.
You might like how the folks at Akismet describe it better than my do-wacky way:
“You have better things to do with your life than deal with the underbelly of the internet. Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again.”
Almost everyone knows about spam in emails, but non-bloggers most likely don’t know spam can enter into blogs too.
So, fellow bloggers . . . have you given thanks for your ‘Mr. Akismet’ too?
[Edit 11-23-8; addition below]
Not everyone might know this—spam is not just porn or unwanted sellers; it’s also comes from people who have a problem with treating others respectfully whom they don’t like (especially those who refuse to agree with everything they believe).
