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  mavimet · Member · Jul 17, 2013 at 11:16 am

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  Is there a problem with the spam filter? Up until the last week Akismet was catching almost all the spam, but now more is getting through than it is catching. I will look at making adjustments to the filter, but thought you should be aware that more are slipping through the general settings lately.

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  rachelmcr · Member · Jul 17, 2013 at 7:05 pm

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  Hi there,

  If a lot of the spam comments have a common string of text, I suggest adding that string to your blacklist:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-blacklist

  You can use the comment author’s name, IP address, web site, as well as the comment itself. Please make sure the word is not something contained in non-spam comments. For example, if you enter “press” as a blacklisted word, “WordPress” will match.

  Also, please mark those comments as spam instead of just deleting. Our Akismet anti-spam engine tries to learn from a pattern of the comments that are marked as spam.

  If you think something may be wrong with how Akismet is working on your blog, you can contact the Akismet support team for more assistance here: http://akismet.com/contact/

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  mavimet · Member · Jul 17, 2013 at 10:44 pm

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  Thanks for your response. I will make some changes in the settings as suggested and see if that helps.

  It was just that until very recently Akismet was catching almost everything and I wondered if there was a problem. Normally I might have had to mark maybe one as spam per month, but in the last week there have been 4 or 5 – not huge numbers, but much more than usual.