Akisment says it blocked 67 spam comments– I want to look them over myself!

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  cookingn00bs · Member · May 17, 2011 at 1:25 am

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  Is there any way to check the spam that was blocked? It’s identifying 20 comments as “ham” — comments that it mistakenly tagged as spam– but I can’t see any of it.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · May 17, 2011 at 2:18 am

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  Dashboard->Comments->Spam.

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 17, 2011 at 2:30 am

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  Akismet will automatically delete duplicate spam comments and those from sources that the industry know for a fact are spammers. All others will be in your spam queue for you to review.

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  cookingn00bs · Member · May 17, 2011 at 2:34 am

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  Tried that, raincoaster, but it doesn’t show any of these many comments Akismet deleted. Thank you though!

  Thanks, thescaredpath. I guess I will just have to trust it, but since I have few comments as it is, I hate the thought that a legitimate one gets accidentally filtered.

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 17, 2011 at 2:34 am

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  BTW, “ham” comments are actual legitimate comments that have been approved on your blog and were not mistakenly caught by the spam filter. The missed are spam comments that akismet missed. The false positives are real comments that akismet mistakenly caught and you have “unspammed” them.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · May 17, 2011 at 8:05 am

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  To be able to see the comments Akismet blocks, go to Settings>Discussion, check the option “Don’t discard spam on old posts”, click Save Changes.

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 17, 2011 at 11:04 am

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  @panos, that will still not reveal duplicates or the ones that akismet knows are spams and deletes automatically.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · May 17, 2011 at 2:07 pm

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  It will not reveal the worst cases but it will not delete the rest automatically: they will remain in the spam folder for you to see (for two weeks I think).
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-moderation

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  timethief · Member · May 17, 2011 at 2:43 pm

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  See here for what two staff members Tellyworth and Mark have to say. > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/akismet-issues?replies=15#post-438186

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  cookingn00bs · Member · May 17, 2011 at 11:23 pm

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  Thank you, everyone!

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 18, 2011 at 3:18 am

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  You are welcome.