We recently updated an existing site and disabled Akismet for three days. I think this does a good job illustrating why Akismet is probably the most important WordPress plugin you can have, albeit one that is often under-appreciated since it is so diligently running behind the scenes. (If you can’t read the number that’s 143 spam comments, almost 50 a day!)
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