Akismet takes my comments as spam
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There now… maybe it’s me! Akismet seems to have identified me as a spammer. Just tried to leave a comment at another site, and it didn’t register. That’s been happening more to me also. (I do refresh and all that, so I know the comment didn’t take…)
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Once it’s defined you as spam it keeps you as spam for awhile. You have to comment on your own blog, then un-spam it, several times. Once you make a comment and it posts properly immediately, then you know that Akismet has been taught.
Since we’re not anthropomorphizing, I’ll say that Akismet is like a dumb but faithful dog. You have to repeat your instructions MANY times before it understands. And sometimes it forgets.
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Fencer…
Other’s have had success when they’ve sent a feedback to staff with examples of posts that got thrown into Akismet. If simply unspamming yourself isn’t working, that might be the road to go.
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Thanks! And raincoaster, I appreciate your comments and help. But why are completely innocuous comments being defined as spam in the first place? Is this a sign of destabilization in Akismet? What specifically goes into Akismet’s judgement of my comments as spam? How can we know?
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@fencer
If volunteers answering forum questions knew how to help you they would. On the other hand sharing “how Akismet works” dialog on this forum would be sharing it with the spammers too. Barking again and again up the same tree isn’t effective so I’d say that you need to send in a feedback to staff. -
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But why are completely innocuous comments being defined as spam in the first place?
Could be for a number of reasons. One of the things I judge on with my own boxes is where the content is coming from. (ie the IP address) Content isn’t the only thing that is judged. For example, we had a comment spam run out of a major Ivy League school here in the States a few weeks ago. That IP address is still blocked on my machine but yet it’s still going strong and complaints to that school have gone unanswered.
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Since I couldn’t taech Akismet to un-spam my comments, since I’m to unpatient to wait for Akismet-Team to deal with my problem via Feedback form, I changed my e-mail address in my WordPress account. It works!
Just few details more: in three months I’ve got 486 comments and Akismet reported only 128 spam comments (all right). Just at once my own comments ended up in spam. Something odd is happening. I even don’t have any spam in my mail inbox, my IP is changable.
So, Fencer, maybe you should consider my solution as possible for you :) -
Thanks for the suggestion… I’ll wait to do that maybe later… see what the support people say.
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And marking it as unspam is what you need to do. Is this the first time this has occured for this commenter? What was the IP address of the commenter?
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My spam number is growing each day – as I’m sure with everyone – but I don’t get to view any of them. I go to the akismet folder and there is nothing there at all! I used to be able to see them, and then delete – now NOTHING! Can I change that? It seems like a bug to me. As we know sometimes these programs go a little nutty at times! I had to unspam a couple of my comments, and of course like others – my own!
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Any comment that gets marked as spam on posts older than 30 days appears to be auto deleted. It was a “feature” put in a while ago, was removed, and now appears to have returned.
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My spam count has added from yesterday, so the 30 day mark doesnt’ apply in my case. The box says zero in there, and yet has increased from yesterday.
Its strange – maybe the program went nuts on my site!
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30 days as it posts older than 30 days. Not comments older than 30 days. The suggestion doesn’t work as Mark emailed me back and said that ‘featured’ hadn’t been put back in as far as he knew. I did ask him if he had any other suggestions but hadn’t heard back from him yet.
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The fact is that Akismet tells me that it has caught x spam messages since it was installed, but I cannot see them, or legitimate any of them, although it hasn’t passed 15 days from the last spam comment caught. I want my lost messages back. I want to be able to choose what are spam and what don’t. Any solution?
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Only solution to that is to download the wordpress software from http:wordpress.org and move your blog to a different host and not install the akismet plugin. It’s automattic here.
Gotta admit that when you start getting a thousand a day, you won’t be thinking that.
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And the wordpress staff cannot ask the Akismet staff to solve this problem? if the solution is to move to a different host instead of repairing Akismet I don’t know what to say…
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