Re:Second that! (Score 5, Interesting)

The difficulty in evaluating Akismet - I speak not as a user but as someone who ended up apparently blacklisted and having to try their appeals system - is that everyone I see praising it is by definition the kind of person who pays attention to the filter and therefore will train it effectively. Since your average wordpress.com user more likely lets false positives pile up, I'd love to know how effective it is for people who don't wonder how effective it is.