Akismet – Unable to see caught spam messages

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    Excuse my tinfoil hat, but given how long this has been going on, I would not expect to see a solution anytime soon. I’m just being a realist based on the history.

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    kellemora · Member ·

    Hi Gang

    I’m fairly new here and not really sure how anything works, but I have learned something interesting about Akismet on my own that might explain a little something about it.

    I have had ZERO Spam ever since my first blog, but at the same time I have been unchecking the allow PING box on each post.

    My last three posts I left that box checked, and I get an Akismet notice that it has blocked X number of spam messages. The number shown seems to be equal to the number of pings my site has received. Then it shows my OWN post as Spam, so I mark it as NOT SPAM and hit the submit button.

    So, in my case, if I uncheck the PING checkbox, I get no Akismet Spam warnings?????
    If I check it, the Spam Warning Counter increments with the number of Pings that blog gets. Makes NO sense to me either!
    I have NEVER YET been able to view a message marked as spam, other than my OWN POST comes up when I click VIEW SPAM which is NOT SPAM of course.

    TTUL
    Kell

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    misstransformer · Member ·

    Askimet is very efficient, and WordPress offers many features, without tons of advertising…all for “free”. You can’t beat that. However, glitches do happen. It’s just a matter of working out the kinks. At the very least, removing automatic deletion of spam after 15 days would help greatly. That way blog owners will have the option of approving legitimate comments, which prevents Askimet from automatically deleting them as spam in the future without notification. Gamehq, the latter may explain why your spam count goes up without any comments to view. Miss T

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