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thesacredpath on "Akismet count/spam queue"

thesacredpath — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:25:31 +0000

With all the other bugs right now, I don't think the Akismet issues some of us are experiencing are a high priority for staff.

I set up a contact page on my site and have told friends who are apparently getting caught by Akismet to use the contact page and I will then transfer their comments to the appropriate post.

Since I set up my blog in March '07, I have only gotten to see about 1 out of every 10, 20, or 30 that Akismet claims it catches. I've sent in numerous support requests, but have never heard anything back on any of them.

unionstreet on "Akismet count/spam queue"

unionstreet — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:37:27 +0000

Just to add to the comments here - there's no spam that I can see in my Akismet queue, even though a daily check of the counter indicates that it has been going up.

montgomerycollege on "Akismet count/spam queue"

montgomerycollege — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:31:00 +0000

Something has happened to all my wordpress blogs. One day all the comments ever written simply disappeared. All but one of the spam pages is empty ( and the one that isn't empty only lists actual spam). In addition to all of the comments, the comments forms have also disappeared from my pages. And, the same day, all the custom header graphics I had uploaded disappeared and reverted to the default graphic. Support is "temporarily closed". Help please!!

lyricalfool on "Akismet count/spam queue"

lyricalfool — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:25:57 +0000

Just another voice saying that a) my own comments have been marked as spam in the past (just noticed it last week) on my own blog and b) now my Askimet numbers are going up, but I'm not able to find the comment to see whether it's spam or not. I check every other day, but none are listed in the Askimet queue, although it's been 2 days, max, since I checked it. Far less than 15.

Thanks.

barry on "Akismet count/spam queue"

barry — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:49:15 +0000

Turning off Akismet would result in blogs full of spam comments which is not something we want here.

bagelofeverything on "Akismet count/spam queue"

bagelofeverything — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:45:19 +0000

I love Askimet. While it does occassionally catch a 'real' comment, and there is (rarely) a delay, our site has been saved from dozens of spam comments every day. For you new users, the evil spam bots will find you soon enough and you'll understand.
Akismet works much better than any other spam filter I've used.
Perhaps, tho, if there /was/ a way to turn it off, people would learn to appreciate it more.

annaea on "Akismet count/spam queue"

annaea — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:12:51 +0000

I've caught the same bug OneMom has -- akismet started eating my own comments today, and when I checked the filter, I discovered it seems to have started eating others comments in the past few days as well. And the spam count has re-set itself.

onemom on "Akismet count/spam queue"

onemom — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:41:14 +0000

Same here. One of my best commenters is continually spammed ... this is unacceptable. Also, akismet was telling me that it had caught 400+ spam since I first loaded it (in July) ... which was accurate until about 10 days ago. This morning (for example) there was 1 spam in the que and it says that it has caught 1 spam since I first installed it ... what's up with that?

mark on "Akismet count/spam queue"

mark — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:34:41 +0000

ipb20 - if you can send as much detail as possible to Support I will do what I can.

ipb20 on "Akismet count/spam queue"

ipb20 — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:04:09 +0000

I have several frequent, regular commenters on my blog who are now being labeled as spam, and no amount of unlabeling them is stopping this from happening. Now my own comments (when I'm logged in) are being tagged as spam as well. I would just like to know whether this is something that is being addressed, or if there is a way to make my spam filter a bit less aggressive?

thesacredpath on "Akismet count/spam queue"

thesacredpath — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:04:21 +0000

One has to wonder if when a post is raised to the status of a "stickie" at the top of the forum, they might, just might, get less attention, (they say it's lonely at the top).

I'd start another thread on it in the main forum, but I'd just be told to read the stickie at the top of the forum - a circular reference I don't care to partake in.

Conclusion? At least for the foreseeable future, any legitimate commenter's on my site (and anyone else with the same problem) unfortunate enough to be anointed "spam" by Akismet, are simply out of luck. The only up side I can see for legitimate commenter's is that they will have some feeling for what it's like to be labeled "illegal enemy combatant."

onlyverse on "Akismet count/spam queue"

onlyverse — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:04:17 +0000

This is really frustrating. If it doesn't work: TURN IT OFF. Bring it back when you managed to fix it.

thesacredpath on "Akismet count/spam queue"

thesacredpath — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 01:05:32 +0000

Just wondering if there had been any movement on this problem. It's been weeks since I've been able to view any "spam", but the number keeps increasing and it always says 0 to moderate.

sesheta7 on "Akismet count/spam queue"

sesheta7 — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 13:47:20 +0000

Hi, I'm in the same boat. Akismet is showing I have 10 magical invisible spam messages and I want to see if any of them are legitimate comments coz I've caught it doing that before (on the one occasion it worked). I've only been blogging for a little over three weeks and it's been a constant problem from the start.

nickdavid on "Akismet count/spam queue"

nickdavid — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:09:59 +0000

Thank you for this!

claudecf on "Akismet count/spam queue"

claudecf — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:19:23 +0000

Yesterday, I wrote to support about one of my commenters who akismet refuses and puts in spam all the time, although I despam her every time. Now there's a second person :(

emmettjones on "Akismet count/spam queue"

emmettjones — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 06:53:19 +0000

I'm having the same problem as everyone else. Akismet shows 4 spam comments for me right now, but I can only see 1 of them. I don't know if the other comments are legitimate or not.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

galm on "Akismet count/spam queue"

galm — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:22:59 +0000

Same as paulbaylay's case...

Actually, the Akismet have blocked my comment since the last Saturday. :?

And what Akismet have done is irritating me. I can't even comment on my OWN blog because that-Akismet had stated me and my email as a SPAMmer.

Poorly, I lived in Indonesia. Support is close at 5 PM, at American time. And in GMT +07.00, it's actually...Yeah, you know. I haven't got enough time for that.

Hope you guys will help me. :)

katm on "Akismet count/spam queue"

katm — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 07:41:29 +0000

If Akismet isn't learning, send a feedback to staff with the specific comments that have been dumped into spam. I'd give it one or two more chances.

A comment of mine, on my own blog, got dumped in there this morning. I just unspammed it and went on my merry old way. I'll check again tonight to make sure I don't get dumped in there again.

I'd rather have Akismet on than the 1000s of nasty spams.

claudecf on "Akismet count/spam queue"

claudecf — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 06:11:52 +0000

This morning, one of my commenters was put into the moderating queue for the third time. I have despammed her messages every time, but akismet doesn't seem to learn. Also, the page shows the following message

"Akismet has caught 1 spam for you since you first installed it.

You have no spam currently in the queue. Must be your lucky day. :)"

Not true, according to the counter on the page, http://vieuxcestmieux.com akismet has stopped

And this is what I see:
<img src='http://blogginginparis.wordpress.com/files/2007/09/ishot-2.png'>

No matter how much I click on the 1 in the queue, I cannot see it

ellaella on "Akismet count/spam queue"

ellaella — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 07:30:13 +0000

My Akismet numbers have never been right, but it's doing its job and that's what I care about.

Sometimes I'll go a week without the number changing, even though I've deleted spam a couple times a day. Other times the number changes and there's nothing in the queue. I have no plans to display my spam caught # so it's not a problem, just a quirk.

aguil on "Akismet count/spam queue"

aguil — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 06:08:46 +0000

why does i cannot post any reply comments in my blog?

even in the other wordpress blogs..

but when i checked the spam queue , i've seen my replies there.

i hope that you can help me.. thanks..

jmnowak on "Akismet count/spam queue"

jmnowak — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:29:32 +0000

Hi guys, Today (31aug) was the first day, since I started my blog in june, that I actually saw some comments in the Spam Queue (7). Yay! They were all spam and I deleted them. However, the spam count has been small up to now (don't get many visitors anyway); it had recorded, until today, that 20 spams had been deleted. Today it was 30, yet only 7 appeared in the queue; what is likely to have happened to the other three?

Re your own comments on your own blog being viewed as spam: So far, whenever I have received comments that I wish to reply to, I have used the Edit comment facility in the dashboard to reply to that commenter (click onto the Comments tab to see all comments made to your posts). My comment is not viewed as possible spam as it is now part of the commenter's comment. In this way, I am replying directly to a comment, and I prefer to do that (keep my reply with the actual comment made, rather than adding to the list of coments later).

As well, sometimes I like to add further detail about a post, but do not want it to show up as part of the post (I am a photoblog). So, what I do is use the comment facility as a way to give this information to my readers, but I do this whilst I am logged in and in my dashboard. In other words, I go into Manage,Posts, I click onto View of the post I wish to add a comment to (not Edit) and in the reply box that appears underneath the post I put in my comment and post it. This has worked so far! :)

mrpurpleduck on "Akismet count/spam queue"

mrpurpleduck — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:34:06 +0000

This is still going on, some spam appeared a couple of days ago. However the spam counter is still going up and not showing in the queue.

claudecf on "Akismet count/spam queue"

claudecf — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:56:26 +0000

My queue at the moment shows one spam comment, except I cannot see it. When I click, nothing happens. One of my contacts tells me she left a comment yesterday and it never showed up in the comments...
http://vieuxcestmieux.wordpress.com/

millosh on "Akismet count/spam queue"

millosh — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:11:26 +0000

Just to say that I've got all of the spam into my queue. All of the messages were spam, but it is good, at least, to know that Askimet works ;)

I still prefer to see all of the spam and to delete it instead of thinking that some post was marked as spam and it is not spam (there was one example of such marked message).

So, whoever did that, thanks!

(For others: It seems that this is the right place to say that it is a problem and it seems that this is solved for people who asked for that. It seems that someone is doing that by hand. At least, it is my impression...)

mrpurpleduck on "Akismet count/spam queue"

mrpurpleduck — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:35:41 +0000

Joining in on the "Me too comments" as support do not want to hear about it.

I've had this problem almost since I started by blog in June, in the last week comments by myself (or someone else) have stopped causing missing spam comments from appearing. Currently I've about 20 spam comments which I can't moderate and it's getting more frustrating by day.

shahrzaad on "Akismet count/spam queue"

shahrzaad — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:37:04 +0000

I have problem. some readers of my blog leave comments yet Unfortunately the poor comments dont show up. I just guess maybe they go to spam inbox. This akismet counter shows i have new spams. But when i check the spam inbox, no spam there. Something wrong here.. Yet after 2 days, the comments have not shown up and my akismet inbox in empty though its counter says i have new spam comments! What can i do to find my lost invisible comments? :(

millosh on "Akismet count/spam queue"

millosh — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:23:17 +0000

So, may someone turn of deleting "spam" from the queue? Actually, the only spam which I got was not filtered by Askimet...

ninglun on "Akismet count/spam queue"

ninglun — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:37:36 +0000

I don't know why, but I very rarely have the problems Paul refers to with either comment or Akismet, here or on the WP blogs I visit. I have sometimes wrongly marked comments as spam but then they usually come back after a while and can be corrected. I have occasionally deleted a comment by mistake. I am willing to confess that is my own inattentiveness, but perhaps thought does need to be given to the layout of the options on the comment editing/approval tool.