Askimet is eating my comments. Please restore!

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    jessigage · Member ·

    Askimet has cleared every single comment from my post! Why?! How can I undo this. This is costing me entries in the giveaway I’m running and makes me look super unprofessional!

    I see no way to ‘unclear’ the comments. Please help! I need these comments back up ASAP!

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

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    timethief · Member ·

    Be aware that over 80% of all so-called comments submitted to wordpress.COM blogs every day are spam. And, as you are running a giveaway there’s little doubt about the amount the amount of spam comments you will receive. Please report your issue here > https://akismet.com/contact/

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    timethief · Member ·

    Spam comes in waves. Spam can be posted by bots and there are also people who are paid to submit spam comments.

    If you approve a single spam comment on a post the original spammer will hammer that post and will sell the URL to other spammers and phishers who will do the same. if you approve comments with links in them the spammers will do the same thing. If you set up anonymous commenting spammer will have a field day. And if you run giveaways your spam will become high in no time flat

    Aksimet is a learning engine. If you get spam that slips by Akismet then mark it as spam (do not delete it) and over time Akismet will learn it’s spam. On the spam that Akismet catches on it takes only seconds to click “empty spam” and you don’t even have to click “empty spam” if you don’t want to. Akismet will maintain comments it has caught for 30 days from the time they were received, and then it will delete the comment automatically.

    There is no such thing as eliminating all spam but Akismet works very well. The worst kind of spam containing malware and viruses is not sent to use for approval as when opened it would bring down many blogs. Set up comment moderation, if you have not already done so, because allowing anonymous commenting on your blog is like putting out the welcome mat for spammers.

    Read Five things every blogger should know about spam: Five things every blogger should know about spam
    http://docs.akismet.com/general/spam-facts/

    This page > Settings > Discussion is where you set up defaults for comments. http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/

    I reduce spam by using this setting:

    3. Automatically close comments on articles older than __ days – This setting can be used to have comments closed on articles that are X days old. As an example, if you only want articles to accept comments for 30 days you would check the box and type 30 into the text field. http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#other-comment-settings

    And I moderate comments too. Comment moderation http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-moderation

    Discussion Settings
    Other comment settings
    _Comment author must fill out name and e-mail
    _Users must be registered and logged in to comment

    See here for comment blacklisting http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-blacklist

    Also, do not put IP addresses in the blacklist. IP addresses are no longer unique, and you might end up blocking legitimate visitors. In fact for over a decade only about 30% of us have IPs that trace back to any individual computer. Also, all they would have to do is go to a wi-fi hot spot, or connect via a different ISP and they could get around that.

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