Akismet – see spam comments?
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Hi all!
I’ve had akismet installed for a few weeks, both here on wordpress.com and on my other WP blog (www.apt47.com). Now, on the wordpress.com there are no comments, hence no spam. But on the other one I get tons of spam.
The problem is that when i login i can see that there are some 10 comments logged as spam på akismet – but i can’t see and verify them anywhere. It says “hese are the latest comments identified as spam by Akismet. If you see any mistakes, simply mark the comment as “not spam” and Akismet will learn…” etc.. but below is always empty? Very strange. Anyone else experience this?
How do I get to see and verify comments identified as spam by akismet?
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Check out the sticky that was just recently posted at the top of the forum by Barry from WP.
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Hi folks,
I just wanted to add my two technical cents (being someone whose provider is not WP):
I had also the problem in the link described: Akismet counts Spam but it is not shown in the queue…
Now I checked my MySQL database and there are no entries even in the “comments” table. That means, in whatever way, Akismet shoots “Spam” comments completely; there is no chance to recover them manually. This discovery leaves me rather shocked; I thought, Akismet would at least keep Spam in my database (for 15 or 30 days or whatever – as configured (!)), but no.
I turned Akismet completely off and installed the plugin “SpamViewer”.
Have a nice day,
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Barry’s sticky was posted on August 8th. It’s now mid-October, and the problem not only remains but is continuing to grow by leaps and bounds. If WordPress is indeed continuing to “work on this”, as claimed in that August 8th announcement, then the level of priority assigned to the issue must be the lowest imaginable.
And considering the fact that this bug, for all intents and purposes, renders the ability to elicit Comments to WordPress blogs useless, such neglect of the problem is really odious.
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Everytime I try to post to a wordpress blog my address comes up as spam because I was going to blogs with similar tags to start conversation. How do i get it un-spamblockced
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I have the very same problem, and I am not at all happy! At least I’ve realized this:
— Akismet is always on. Adding the Akismet widget to your sidebar only shows the number of blocked “spams” and removing the widget simply removes the message. But Akismet is always on.
— sometimes, rarely, Akismet shows the “spams” and I can mark them as “not spam”, but in most cases, the comments simply disappear.
I consider both of these to be serious bugs, and hope that either Akismet can be turned completely off or I am given a chance to de-spam each and every comment.
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This is a well known and long standing problem as is evidenced by the multiple threads on the topic in the forum searchbox. I sincerely doubt that Akismet will be “tuned off”. It’s in use across the over 1.9 million blogs on the wordpress.com blogging platform and there is no means of turning it off on individual blogs here.
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First off a disclaimer: I still believe there may be some problems with Akismet, but after rooting around in the .org forum and in various other places in the recent past, I found a couple things that might explain some of the things we see with Akismet. Since none of this comes directly from Akismet, it’s caveat emptor (let the buyer beware), but the following does seem to answer some of the questions. Sadly I did not bookmark any of the sources, but I will try to find them again for future reference.
If you happen to get 10 identical spams from the same source, Akismet will not display the duplicates; you will only see 1 of the 10 (makes sense; why show you all 10 identical spams from the exact same source?). Once you have identified a certain comment as spam by marking it such in your comments, or if it shows up in under “Aksimet Spam” and you confirm that it is spam by deleting it, then any additional comments from that source will be caught, and your count will increase, but they will not be displayed (again, it makes sense; you had already identified that source as a spammer to Aksimet and why should it ask you to again confirm as spam what you have already identified as spam?).
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Thanks tsp, for the research. I did not know these things, and they do make sense of the high count and low display.
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You’re welcome Muse.
As I said, I still think there may be a problem, but not as big a problem as I, and others, thought originally.
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