Where's the Ham?

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  butchdiaries · Member · Mar 11, 2011 at 5:54 pm

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  Looking at my Akismet all-time stats, it shows 8 all time spam and 4 ham (new blog). I have never received a comment notification, and have no comments (spam, ham or mustard) in my inbox. I really couldn’t care less about the spam, but if I have legit comments hanging around out there, I’d really like to access them. I emailed support and got some line about spam being deleted after x number of days…. really doesn’t help me with the ham issue. What the heck do I do?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Mar 11, 2011 at 8:04 pm

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  Relax please. :) We frequently get this question from those who are new to wordpress.com. This is a multiuser blogging platform. The very worst of all spam that contains malware and/other malicious scripts etc. that threaten security and which could bring many blogs down or even bring the whole site down is NOT forwarded to us for examination. If you have spam to examine then you will find it by going to your comments page and clicking the “spam” link at the top of the page. http://http://butchdiaries.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit-comments.php?comment_status=spam

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  timethief · Member · Mar 11, 2011 at 8:05 pm

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  OOPS! I’m sorry about that link above. It should have been:
  http://butchdiaries.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit-comments.php?comment_status=spam

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  butchdiaries · Member · Mar 11, 2011 at 8:27 pm

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  Not horribly stressed about it, just trying to figure everything out :) Again, however, my question is about the 4 coimments that Askimet has apparently marked as legitimate comments which are also not showing up, not the Spam. Like I said…. couldn’t really care less about the spam. Maybe I’m confused about what “ham” actually is.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 11, 2011 at 8:31 pm

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  I had a few moments of extra time so I located this Staff response in another thread for you https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-question-stats-question?replies=8#post-416589

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  timethief · Member · Mar 11, 2011 at 9:15 pm

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  BTW you may also want to note what’s in this support entry > http://en.support.wordpress.com/unwanted-comments/

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  justjennifer · Member · Mar 11, 2011 at 9:27 pm

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  /backstage whisper @tt the OP is asking about ham, not spam.

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  “Ham is our word for comments that aren’t spam”.

  Since they say that in the Akismet stats dash there 4 ham comments, one would assume they reflect legit comments, but the OP doesn’t have any yet.

  Stats anomalies?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 11, 2011 at 9:31 pm

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  @Jennifer
  *** head desk *** sorry! If they aren’t in the Comment moderation queue then — Stats anomalies?

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  butchdiaries · Member · Mar 12, 2011 at 4:18 pm

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  So just write them off and move on with my life, a broken shell of a human being with no comments? *le sigh*

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  justjennifer · Member · Mar 12, 2011 at 9:33 pm

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  Maybe, like tt, Support misread spam for ham? I’d give it another go with them and good luck.