How do I see the comments Akismet is identifying as spam?
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How do I see the comments Akismet is identifying as Spam? I get the “Akismet Stats” but that just tells me how many Spam comments, it doesn’t let me read them to verify that they are spam. When I went to the Akismet site, it said I needed to activate it, and said I need to go to the plug-in menu, but I don’t have a plug-in menu. I am just trying to see what comments are being identified as spam. Help?
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Plugins are only for WordPress.org.
On WordPress.com, akismet is already activated.
You can see spam comments like so:
dashboard–>comments—>on top of that screen you will see this:All | Pending (number) |Approved |Spam (number) |Trash (number)
click on “Spam” to view the comments there.
Note, these are the comments which Akismet hasn’t learned are certainly spam comments. If you see a comment that you think is not spam, then you can change its status. Otherwise, mark them as spam and Akismet will “learn” that those are spam and you won’t be bothered with them in future. The ones you don’t mark will be automatically spammed after a period of time (30 days, I think.). -
This WordPress.com Support page should help you with that, remember that WordPress.com Support is your friend, if you need information just type what you are looking for there first ;) :
http://en.support.wordpress.com/manage-comments/
Good luck and if you need more help just ask Whereaboutsstillunknown. :)
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@whereaboutsstillunknown
Just for information, there are different kinds of WordPress and much of what you see online in information about WordPress.ORG which does not apply to WordPress.COM. -
I was just glancing at the forums here and I saw an easy to answer question, so I rushed to answer it to help take some of the load off you and some of the other veteran helpers here at the forums 1Tess, but you are so fast. Hehehe :D
Anyway, I will stop interfering with this topic, good luck Whereaboutsstillunknown; and keep up the good work 1Tess. :)
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Note that comments caught as spam are immediately deleted if on older posts, so by default you never get to see them in Comments > Spam. If you wish to change this, you need to go to Settings > Discussion and enable the option “Don’t discard spam on old posts”.
But keep in mind that Akismet is right 99.99% of the time. -
Thank you for sharing that Justpi :) , but I disagree with your percentage there; Akismet is accurate, but not that accurate in my experiences, I would rate it no higher than 99% with at least 1% inaccuracy. :D
But that 1% or more is probably more user fault, where certain users mark some people’s comments as spam & Akismet starts marking them as spam as well I guess, I have had this happen to me several times where certain users & Akismet have marked my blog & forum comments/topics as spam & blocked/hid them. ;)
You are a WordPress Veteran, but you might be surprised by some of the things that I have seen & experienced here. Hehehe
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Thanks to all!
Yes I saw the spam section on WordPress itself but it said 0 spam comments, while Akismet statistics said 2 spam comments, so I thought they were 2 separate filters.
I appreciate everyone’s help!
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@whereaboutsstillunknown:
“It said 0 spam comments, while Akismet statistics said 2 spam comments” for the reasons Tess and I explained: spam on new posts is deleted automatically after a certain period of time, and spam on older posts is deleted immediately except if you check the option I suggested.@goodjohnjr:
I’m very rarely surprised, precisely because I’m a “veteran”!
Your point is quite correct, in the sense that we users affect the accuracy of the tool (in my blog it certainly is 99.99% accurate), and both your point and mine should serve the same purpose: make whereaboutsstillunknown thinkg again and again before unspamming a comment that Akismet has withheld. -
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