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  mysticalmoonstar · Member · May 22, 2017 at 5:03 am

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  Why are the comments left for me all being flagged as spam

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  justjennifer · Member · May 22, 2017 at 5:35 am

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  Hi there, do you mean legitimate comments are being caught as spam?

  Akismet, our spam protecting software, is generally very good about recognizing spam and will put spam in the Spam folder. Here are some resources that you will want to read to educate yourself to recognize those spam comments:

  5 things every blogger should know about spam: https://docs.akismet.com/general/spam-facts/

  The Secret Recipe of Comment Spam Comments

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/unwanted-comments/

  Other WordPressdotcom users have reported an upswing in the number of spam comments recently, so if you find spam comments in your Pending approval folder, please mark them as spam and do not delete them so that Akismet learns to recognize them as spam.

  If you meant something else, please let me know.

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  mysticalmoonstar · Member · May 22, 2017 at 6:35 am

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  Thank you, I’ll check out those links you left me!