Akismet

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  bobbydias · Member · Jan 12, 2013 at 3:31 am

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  turn off Akismet

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  bobbydias · Member · Jan 12, 2013 at 3:35 am

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  I am receiving emails from angry people whose comments are being blocked by Akismet. How do I turn off Akismet? I do not want a Democrat telling me who I can and cannot communicate with.

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 12, 2013 at 3:37 am

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  How do I turn off Akismet?

  You can’t as long as your blog is on WordPress.COM

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  bobbydias · Member · Jan 12, 2013 at 3:42 am

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  Reply to: You can’t as long as your blog is on WordPress.COM
  Then this akismet is like Barack Obama standing there smiling at us while Wright is doing Obama’s preaching to kill us- we have to have this thing deciding what is good or bad for us like we are children.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Jan 12, 2013 at 3:59 am

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  nevermind akismet!!!!
  you can control which comments can be made on your site:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/comments/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/comments/#comment-management
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/manage-comments/

  And this:

  Who Can Comment

  You can allow only registered WordPress.com users to comment, or you can allow anyone to comment. If you allow anyone to comment, you can choose whether the name and email fields are required or not.

  from
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/who-can-comment/

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Jan 12, 2013 at 4:06 am

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  Also keep in mind that Akismet does not block comments based on one political view or another (and remember that wordpress.com is international).

  Perhaps your readers are adding lots of links in their comments. Or using language which triggers a “spammer” response for whatever reason. If you check your spam, akismet will “learn” what is and isn’t real spam.