Mike’s post reminded me to check on our Akismet stats. The last time Mike posted an update he was at 1MM spam comments and we were at 2MM. He’s since added 1MM new comments. During the same time, b5media’s Akismet blocked 3.5MM additional spam comments.

TechCrunch is now blocking 15,000 spam comments per day. We’re now blocking about 50,000 per day.

The TechCrunch figures are insane for just half a dozen sites (b5′s blocking spam across 200 sites).

Thank goodness for Akismet, eh Mike?