Akismet Admin Panel Excerpts

[sunburntkamel]

The akismet spam admin page is often too long to be reviewed. If spam comments were displayed as excerpts up to 200 characters, it would cut down on the amount of scrolling without reducing the ability to determine false positives.

[matt]

If we did this spammers would put the spam at the end.

[sunburntkamel]

well, it works with email spam. they might be able to put the actual links at the end, but until they put meaningful and relevant content at the start, (which can't be done automatically) it'll still be easier.

for anyone else who finds this: the following greasemonkey script does this:  http://engtech.wordpress.com/tools/wordpress/akismet-auntie-spam/#comment-10552