Akismet takes my comments as spam

raincoaster · Member · Jun 1, 2007 at 7:06 am
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The WordPress staff IS the Akismet staff.

I would suggest sending in a feedback. Mark, who reads the feedbacks and does support, says it shouldn’t be autodeleting spams on old posts, which means it should be going into your Aksimet file or being posted straight to the blog. Which, apparently, isn’t happening. He needs to know that, so tell him in a feedback.
vaisens · Member · Jun 1, 2007 at 11:46 am
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Thanks a lot, I already sent a feedback yesterday, so I guess that now I must wait. Thanks again. Hoping that the problem will be solved ^^
drmike · Member · Jun 1, 2007 at 12:06 pm
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Actually you asked that you be the one to determine if a comment is spam or not and not allow any system to do so. At least that’s how I determined your question.
vaisens · Member · Jun 1, 2007 at 7:14 pm
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Not exactly, in fact, I wanted Akismet to work correctly, I mean, that Akismet should capture the comments it considers that are spam, but I want to be able to review if they really are spam. And now I cannot. That’s it.
letaguldkorn · Member · Jun 2, 2007 at 9:46 am
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I’ve got the same problem as vaisens – and my 2 blogs are new.
One was made 2007-05-06 and the other 2007-05-29 and Aksimet told me that since two days ago I have hade 12 spams – I could only see two of them – and they where not spam.

Where are the others?
They are not older than 30 days. So they shouldn’t have been deleted.
vaisens · Member · Jun 5, 2007 at 10:02 am
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Fixed. Akismet eventually has allowed me to review the comments. All of them were spam lol
amandapkm · Member · Jun 8, 2007 at 5:25 pm
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sorry everyone, i think i am getting real confused here. i’ve read the instructions on how to retrieve my ‘ham’ but i just don’t get it can anyone give me some easier instructions to follow on?
timethief · Member · Jun 8, 2007 at 5:27 pm
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Dashboard -> Comments -> Akismet Spam
You can delete all of the spam from your database with a single click. This operation cannot be undone, so you may wish to check to ensure that no legitimate comments got through first. Spam is automatically deleted after 15 days, so don’t sweat it.
amandapkm · Member · Jun 8, 2007 at 5:28 pm
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its empty in there…
timethief · Member · Jun 8, 2007 at 5:29 pm
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Do you have a specific Akismet spam problem you can articulate?
amandapkm · Member · Jun 8, 2007 at 5:30 pm
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but it says that they have caught 6 spams since the first day i installed which is like 9 days ago, i want to check if they are ham since one of my friend told me that her comment on my blog cannot be seen.

i suspect many more are hams
timethief · Member · Jun 8, 2007 at 5:32 pm
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Your only recourse is to get your friend’s email address that she used to comment with and then send in a feedback to staff. (The feedback button is on the top right hand corner of any admin side blog page.)
amandapkm · Member · Jun 8, 2007 at 5:35 pm
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what if it was some anonymous person who found their way to my blog and commented but was recognised as spam? does it means that there is no way to check the ‘suspected’ spam?

also, is there anyway to disable akismet on my wordpress blog?
timethief · Member · Jun 8, 2007 at 5:39 pm
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Sometimes and for some bloggers there is a time delay before the spammed comments show up in the Akismet filter. I never experience this problem on my blogs and most bloggers don’t seem to experience it either.

You cannot disable Akismet on your blog. Because we are all on the same wordpress.com multi-user blogging platform Akismet is activated for all our blogs.

We are back to where we began – send a feedback into staff providing as much information as you can.
amandapkm · Member · Jun 8, 2007 at 5:45 pm
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by feedback you mean to the akismet staffs or the wordpress staffs? i have sent a contact list thingy to akismet already and are waiting for a reply.

i think this problem happened to me because i’m a new user to wordpress and wasn’t aware of akismet and thus didn’t went to check my pending akismet comments until today.

anyway, thanks alot for your help otherwise, i think i will still be as confused as ever.

do you know how long will a new comment that is suspected of spam will stay in the akismet spam folder for how long?
timethief · Member · Jun 8, 2007 at 5:50 pm
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Akismet is a wordpress product.
You can leave feedback either here http://akismet.com/contact/
Or you can leave feedback here – The feedback button is on the top right hand corner of any admin side blog page.

do you know how long will a new comment that is suspected of spam will stay in the akismet spam folder for how long?

Suspected spam is automatically deleted after 15 days.
amandapkm · Member · Jun 8, 2007 at 5:53 pm
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15 days after the comment is left or comments on the posting date 15 days later?
timethief · Member · Jun 8, 2007 at 5:55 pm
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I don’t know for sure. I copied and pasted exactly from here -> Comments – > Akismet Spam. I assume it’s 15 days after receipt of the comment which Akismet suspects to be spam.
amandapkm · Member · Jun 8, 2007 at 5:56 pm
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haha okay thanks lotsa. and good nights. (=
timethief · Member · Jun 8, 2007 at 5:57 pm
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Bye now. :)

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