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Automattic’s spam plugin Akismet looks to be quite the skilled comment spam blocker - my only question is with the fact that it requires a WordPress.com API key in order to run. Will this not create a mass of empty blogs at WordPress.com, generated just to get an API key?

For example, I’m now the owner of jaacob.wordpress.com, which I won’t be using since I have this site. While I doubt my empty blog puts a strain on the WordPress.com servers individually, multiplied exponentially does it become an issue? I know servers & bandwidth are cheap these days, but basically building in abandoned blogs doesn’t seem smart.

I know thousands, if not millions of blogs are created on services like Blogger and then abandoned - usually for lack of follow-through with the author. With the massive popularity of wordpress as a publishing platform, is Akismet forcing WordPress.com to catch up to Blogger’s numbers in abandoned blogs, and (possibly?) in a much shorter time?

Maybe I’m totally off-base here … ?

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