Spam detection is failing too often.

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  lancewiggs · Member · Oct 20, 2014 at 10:32 am

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  Akismet spam detection is letting far too many comments through to moderate. It used to be great, and most of the comments seem obviously spammy. What can we do to beef up the filter?

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  lancewiggs · Member · Oct 20, 2014 at 11:05 am

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  (and yes – I’ve read the standard reply. )

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Oct 20, 2014 at 9:32 pm

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  Hey Lance!

  As you probably know, spam can be a bit tricky and hard to predict. The best offense is to continually mark them as spam rather than just deleting the comments. If you still are having trouble, please reach out to our Akismet team directly here:

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  They’ll be able to take a closer look!