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Hello,
Akismet tells me it detected 9 hams and, if I understand, it means that it detected 9 legit comments. But when I go to the "comments" section of the dashboard, there are way less than 9 comments. Why can't I see what happened to those comments ?
The blog I need help with is chamantoutnu.wordpress.com.
See what Staff (tellyworth) has siad here please > http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/akismet-issues?replies=15#post-436802
I don't get it. He says why the spam counter goes up although I don't see any spam, but he doesn't say anything about hams ?
Ham are non-spam comments. They are the ones that are NOT identified as spam by Akismet. Ham are the comments that show up on your comments page.
Exactly, and that's my question : why is there nothing on my comments page ?
Until someone comments on your site, that is NOT spam, then you will have no comments appear there. Have any people commented on your site yet?
No, there is nothing. I checked all my posts one by one too, I have no comment but still 9 ham.
Did you by chance make some test comments and then delete them previously? If so, the ham count is not reduced when you delete those comments, since that is still a ham comment that you received. The numbers almost never completely match up. My "ham" all-time in Akismet shows 363, but I have 373 comments on my site here. They never match up.
I think you're right, I must have deleted some test comments. Thanks. :)
You are welcome.
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