I used to have small amount of spam comments that was the reason why i didn’t use spam blocking plugins but since 2-3 days i have been getting large number of spam comments in my blog so its quite boring to delete or unaprove the spam comments . I though of using Akismet . but I read about its disadvantages that it sometimes blocks your(authors) comment  and frequent visitors’ comment as well so i was lil doubtful about using it on my site. As an experiment i have activated the plugin which is inbuilt in wordpress blog package ( u dont need to download the plugin file and install it) . Lets see how Akismet performs . after some weeks i will consider deactivating it as an another experiment..

you can have a look at the spam comments i got in the screenshots below

Installing Akismet is a very easy task if you are familiar with wordpress and u have already installed and activated some other plugins . As i mentioned Akismet is rolled in the wordpress package no need to install it manually just you need to activate it and one more thing it needs is the wordpress API key . the key is sent to you by email once u sign up for the free wordpress account….