akismet yes or not?

I noticed that real comments (not coming from spammers) are still queued and marked as “spam” probably by akismet.

It is not Anti-spam plugin for sure. If you have Akismet installed – so comments marked as spam by Akismet.

So I ask: is it safe uninstall akismet?

In my opinion it is safe to uninstall Akismet. I use only Anti-spam plugin on all my sites and I very satisfied with it.

Anyway you can try to uninstall Akismet and return back to Akismet anytime.

Write me back if you will have troubles with spam in future.

I only use the anti-spam plugin as well. Akismet took up tremendous resources and also bloated my database. I used to get hundreds of spam comments a day. Since I have been using the anti-spam plugin only I have not had any spam. I only use this one plugin for spam. It is awesome! ??

I de-activated akismet and I can tell that real comments now get in correctly.
Many thanks again for this awesome plugin!

I still use Akismet with Anti-Spam. Until Akismet was recently updated, it hardly stopped anything — single or low double digit figures — and Anti-Spam was doing all the work by stopping 100k+ spam comments per month. Now since November Akismet is suddenly catching over a hundred spam comments each month. Anti-Spam still does most of the work, but Akismet is doing more than it used to. Any idea why that is?

How do these plugins play together? My understanding is that Anti-Spam acts first, and then Akismet. If that is correct, then Anti-Spam is doing worse now and/or Akismet is doing better.

This is on a site with around 100k visits/month. Previously when only Akismet was used, it would catch 100-150k spam comments/month. When I added Anti-Spam, this number fell to 10-25 spam comments/month. In November it shot up to 106 and is currently at 120 for December.

@dan Knauss:

Akismet is doing more than it used to. Any idea why that is?

Probably Akismet changed its algorithms.

How do these plugins play together? My understanding is that Anti-Spam acts first, and then Akismet.

These plugins play together pretty nice. Anti-spam works locally and Akismet uses its own service API. I can’t tell who acts first.

If that is correct, then Anti-Spam is doing worse now and/or Akismet is doing better.

Anti-spam plugin is not going worse.
IMHO it is Akismet doing better now.
If you keep these plugins up-to-date then you have the maximum protection these plugins can offer to you.

Anti-spam plugin blocks only automatic spam and often it is about 99.9% of the spam.
Akismet blocks spam using dozens of different algorithms.
IMHO your site is very popular and you have got alot of spammer’s attention.
I would recommend you to use both plugins on your site for now.