Do you ever override Akismet in your blogs?

[balsimon]

Hi,

When you blog and receive link-backs and comments, and if
these appear in the Akismet area of your blog for
evaluation, do you ever override Akismet's designation?
If so, what criteria do you use to determine if Akismet
got it right?

Do you:

a - just assume Akismet got it right? Quick & easy, but
you could be missing some good links.

b - take a look at the source and see if you should
override Akismet? Especially since Akismet says that if
you "unspam" a comment, it "learns" your preferences.
This takes some time, which perhaps could be better
used on other things, but if it improves the quality of
your blog, maybe it's worth it.

Also, do the following matter to you when you evaluate
the source of the links?

- Alexa ranking?
- Page rank
- The look/professionalism of the source of the link?

Regards,
Bal

[wclements]

lol. Akismet catches a lot of spam comments for
me and even the ones that look and feel legit,
with a little research I come to the same
conclusion Akismet did.

(I just do a couple Google searches for parts
of the comments to see if it is mass-posted.)

To date, I've never caught Akismet being wrong.
(Thousands of spam comments later, with only
some random checks.)

-William Clements

[balsimon]

Hi William -

Thanks for your take on this. I've come to rely on Akismet
as well, but wondered if my reliance was too much of a
rubber stamp.

Kind Regards,
Bal