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Akismet Is Catching Wrong People

Started by Vlad Zablotskyy · 10 months ago

After trying out all sorts of “math” and “question” plugins to protect my site from spam comments I settled with Akismet. Since I have activated the plugin (about) two month ago it has caught well over 500 spam comments on this site. The plugin is ... Continue reading »

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  • 45n5

    2 years ago

    The problem is not with your site but with the people that are leaving the comments, they are probably blacklisted from Askimet.

    There is no easy solution, just keep reporting them as good in Askiment and it should get fixed eventually.

    Until then though, every comment on a wordpress blog running askimet, they will probably never see their comment again.

    I was blacklisted by askimet a few months ago, it's better now but took a few lost comments and emailing bloggers where I commented to fix it.

    Askimet is stupid ;-)
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  • Vlad

    2 years ago

    Thanks 45n5,

    Do you think there is a better solution?
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  • 45n5

    2 years ago

    "I have notice that it marks some comments made by my friends and people who have commented on my posts in the past as spam."

    Certainly you can find a better solution than that?

    I'm not very familiar with worpress so i don't know how to help much.
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  • Blogger

    1 year ago

    Hi,

    I have been using Akismet, before using this plugin i was having to delete hundred(s) of spam comments with my poor hands.. :(

    Now thanks to Akismet the trouble has been much easier, i am sure it can be much more difficult for you since you may be getting way more comments then ordinary blogs, i was getting like 40 spam comments daily, and rarely get real peoples comments... i only noticed once that it caught a real people comment as a spam, but that comment of his was also looking like a spam :D when i readed it.

    I think Akismet is really good and helpful, but you can try to see if any other spam protectors can help you...

    The latest version of Akismet is really good and improved.
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  • Florence Oregon

    1 year ago

    I have recently been using Akismet as well and I have experienced the same results. Friends that are definitely not spammers getting snagged by Akismet. These are good valid posts that add to the conversations, not just 3 or 4 word posts.

    I would be interested in finding a better solution for WP.
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