I'm fairly new here and not really sure how anything works, but I have learned something interesting about Akismet on my own that might explain a little something about it.

I have had ZERO Spam ever since my first blog, but at the same time I have been unchecking the allow PING box on each post.

My last three posts I left that box checked, and I get an Akismet notice that it has blocked X number of spam messages. The number shown seems to be equal to the number of pings my site has received. Then it shows my OWN post as Spam, so I mark it as NOT SPAM and hit the submit button.

So, in my case, if I uncheck the PING checkbox, I get no Akismet Spam warnings?????
If I check it, the Spam Warning Counter increments with the number of Pings that blog gets. Makes NO sense to me either!
I have NEVER YET been able to view a message marked as spam, other than my OWN POST comes up when I click VIEW SPAM which is NOT SPAM of course.

TTUL
Kell

I first noticed the problem about 9 months ago.

When I wrote to forums and later support about Akismet Gone Wild, I figured I would be the lone member taking issue with Akismet. Boy, was I wrong. I've read dozens of similar complaints from members.

That said, instead of giving WP members a pat response such as "It's being worked on," or, the equally dismissive, "Just think how much worse it would be with no Akismet," how about making Akismet an OPTIONAL feature?

I've written to Akismet requesting instructions how to remove it from my blog and I never got a response.

It's not fair that we are being held captive by Akismet. Luckily, my readers are patient but they are growing tired of not seeing their comments appear the moment they post them. If this problem had existed from the beginning, I doubt that my blog would have passed the 250,000 hiy mark.

Would it be possible to have an alternative? It would be nice if WordPress bloggers could choose to use one of Askimets competitors. There are many other companies...

Thanks for that tip. I'll give it a try. Don't know why it was not ticked to begin with. Hmm..

Cheers!

virginiadiaz Member

January 31st, 2008 at 4:23 am
Maybe this is a different problem, or I'm an idiot (entirely possible), but I was having this same issue until I noticed that on the dashboard, under "options" and then "discussion" there is a box to check that is labled "Don’t discard spam on old posts".

Once I checked that, I could view the spam comments and delete them as needed.

What is going on???

I'm new to blogging and i've only just setup my account here at .wordpress.com, so i dont get that much traffic therefore not many comments, and now i see that Akismet is blocking my comments and i cant view them?

So yeah. . . waiting for a response :)