Disable akismet blocking

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  aidantulloch · Member · Jan 24, 2016 at 4:04 pm

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  Hello,
  Rather than the akismet auto-spam-blocking I would prefer to do this myself using the usual moderation process where WordPress asks me to moderate a comment. Is this possible?
  Thanks

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 24, 2016 at 4:55 pm

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  Akismet can not be turned off – you can ask that all spam be put in the spam filter for you to review

  but I find that Akismet makes so few errors I don’t worry – – most of the people that show up here and complain about Akismet throwing away their “good” comments had approved so much spam – spam comments were all they had in their site – some even had warning sent to them and they had to delete thousands of spam comments they had approved

  during peak viewing season I had at least 150 comments in the spam folder every day with several hundred going directly to spam that I really do not want Akismet turned off – it can be a nightmare

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  aidantulloch · Member · Jan 24, 2016 at 5:19 pm

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  Yes, I can imagine how that could be a problem! That said, I wouldn’t mind experiencing it just for a short while. If I want it temporarily so that I filtered the spam, how could I do this?

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  auxclass · Member · Jan 24, 2016 at 5:51 pm

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  Dashboard >> Settings >> Discussion >> there is a box – something like Akismet should put all comments in spam filter