My comments on blogs I follow are suddenly not appearing.

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    katechiconi · Member ·

    I’m trying to post comments to blogs I follow regularly, and despite being able to comment without problems up to now, suddenly my comments are not appearing. I think it’s unlikely Aksimet will suddenly regard the comments as spam, and as there are other comments appearing on those posts, I know that Comments are enabled. Also, they have not enabled comment moderation in the past, and I got no message to say the comments were awaiting moderation. Can you suggest any solution?
    The two blogs where this has happened so far are:
    https://catbirdquilts.wordpress.com
    https://livegrownourishcreate.wordpress.com

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    timethief · Member ·

    Hi there,
    Please Contact Akismet Staff directly http://akismet.com/contact/
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    I think Akismet is catching my comments by mistake

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    timethief · Member ·

    Can you suggest any solution?

    I posted the only solution I know of. I’m also astonished that anyone would choose not to moderate their comments.

    re: anonymous commenting

    Be keenly aware that the vast and overwhelming majority of all so-called information on the internet is spam. Over 80% of all so-called comments submitted to .wordpress.com blogs every day are spam.

    Spam comes in waves. There are human beings who get paid to post spam. There are robotic programs that post spam. Setting up anonymous commenting is akin to throwing down a welcome mat to spammers and phishers and all their buddies too as they sell URLs and email addresses to each other for spamming and phishing purposes.

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

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

    Note that the prompt to submit and email address and a website URL will still appear, but providing an email address and logging in are not required, and you cannot change this so the prompt does not appear.

    You can post instructions for your visitors in a text widget if you wish to set up anonymous commenting. That’s easy to do. You copy and paste this into a text widget:

    Readers: Note that the email address and logging in prompts do appear for comments on this blog, but providing an email address and logging in are not required.

    P.S. Do be sure to set up full comment moderation on your own blog ie. “An administrator must always approve the comment” because anonymous commenting is bound to increase the amount of spam your blog will receive.
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-moderation

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