A few issues with Akismet
May 10, 2007 | Comments (5) | Filed under: Blogging
While my love for Akismet remains in tact, lately its been a little bit more of a chore to keep it that way. A few of the regular commenters here have been having their comments flagged as spam, which is really starting to bug me. For a new site like this, having a hassle like that when posting comments can be a deciding factor on whether or not a reader comes back.
Anyway, I wanted to apologize to the people it has happened to thus far (including myself, it flagged me!) and I just want to reassure you that I am keeping an eye out on the flagged comments and manually approving ones that are legitimate. Unfortunately that means your comment might not show up right away, but I’ll definitely make sure it does eventually.
If you notice a problem with you comment not showing up, you can also shoot me a quick message and let me know to watch out for it. I’m usually pretty good at catching them though…
Hopefully this is only a temporary thing…
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I’m new to wordpress blogging, but I have been having a similar experience with Aksimet. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to learn, and it can block the same commentator several times.
Interesting articles BTW
I can’t recommend Spam Karma highly enough. I’ve never used Akismet, but I know with SK I can just set it and forget it.
I’ll have to give it a shot. I really like the idea behind akismet in that it compiles spammers from multiple different sites at the same time, and makes its decisions from that pool. Obviously though, that has its downfalls as well
I’ve been having the same problem lately. I’m finding that readers who have commented without problems in the past are now having their comments flagged as spam. Because of this, I’m now going through my comments marked as spam with a fine tooth comb all the time.