Askimet numbers increase but shows no new spam
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KatK *wink* =^..^= (ETA: Just that I get a kick out of being a KK now. The geeky gamer joke being that this is what people “in game” will say in agreement. “Kk, I’ll brb.”)
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Duh-Oh! Sorry KatK I must have been thinking Kat and then m for meanders. Actually it’s obvious I wasn’t thinking.
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It isn’t a biggie. I figured you were thinking of the 2 words of my blog title. *smile* I’ve done similar, and some embarassing Spoonerisms as well as letting my Freudian slip show on numerous occaision.
ETA: Link with funny examples of Spoonerisms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoonerism
ETA2: Not to say I didn’t laugh along with the rest at my error. I can’t bring up examples but I recall the impression that some were quite funny.
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Ok, I emptied my spam box. And not long after doing so, the spam count has increased by one, when I go to look over my spam, Askimet says my spam box is empty. “You have no spam currently in the queue. Must be your lucky day. :)” Yet, it just increased by one. So, I guess it is eating comments after all? Am I right in thinking it only auto-deletes duplicate comments if they are the same as what is in the spambox, or does it somehow “know” (even if the spambox is emptied) that it is a duplicate post?
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Askimet has recently started treating comments from regular readers of my site as spam. This morning I logged in and the count was 21. Then, it jumped to 38, but nothing is in the folder. As mentioned above, how can we tell Askimet is not deleting comments?
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Mine are being deleted instantly as well, and I moderate all comments. The one time it did hold them in the queue one of the two wasn’t spam. I’d like to be able to moderate them myself.
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I had posted this research in another thread concerning these issues and will post it here as well.
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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the question is: does it also mark as spam (without asking you!) what OTHER users had marked as spam before?
To come back to the very first topic: my blog is quite new – i never had the opportunity to SEE MYSELF if ANY comment that got sorted out as spam actually was spam or not. only the number increases. And i check the comments regularly, so its not due to me waiting too long.
And yes, i would like to have comments on entrys older than 30 days ! Many blogs i read have active discussions on older entrys. That depends on the kind of blog you have. I think this should really be reconsidered.
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