Comments on: Akismet Deletes Comments Bloggers NEVER SEE!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:50:01 +0000

I don’t see why you would use Akismet when there are so many other great plugins out there for dealing with spam…I mean, only the activation procedure for Akismet is kinda bureaucratic. Isn’t it?
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By: Bobbi

Bobbi — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 22:44:17 +0000

’m with you on that one. Akismet improving their system… I don’t think so! I’m not counting on it, but I’m definitely wishing for it… As for their behavior when it comes to removing the abilities for checking whether you’ve been banned or not — that’s sooo big corporation-ish.

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By: John Knights

John Knights — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:32:42 +0000

I agree with this. Not all people has the ability to switch their HATS into a level of professionals. I feel bad about those people who just want to show interest in Topics they want to learn/discuss.

I personally think this is just another scenario of “If it’s none of your business, then just sit there and listen.” pretty sad.

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:28:22 +0000

I don’t know what to do now, I love blog commenting however I also like to put my homepage in the website field to promote my site, but I don’t spam other people’s sites, I put thoughtful comments in them, akismet really is not accurate
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By: Martyn Bowel

Martyn Bowel — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:26:43 +0000

I think we are guilty of knee jerk here; jumping to unwarranted conclusions. In my blog I moderate comments and no I don’t approve every comment. I delete a lot of stuff but automated systems just aren’t sophisticated enough to do this fairly and are effectively gagging genuine opinion. It’s a form of auto censorship.

By: Boiler Installation

Boiler Installation — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 02:32:03 +0000

I think people need to study askimet rules before complaining !

By: growmap

growmap — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:43:53 +0000

Hi Jym,

As long as you check for real comments – and that is a LOT easier when GASP is blocking all the spambots – you should be fine. Do make sure you don’t have Akismet configured to delete comments automatically in posts older than 30 days. See my Akismet Configuration post for details.
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By: growmap

growmap — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:33:40 +0000

No, I absolutely did NOT activate Akismet on any blog I control and especially not this one. Akismet has been deleted from every blog I manage and I just verified that is it NOT in this blog.

You need to understand how commenting works in WordPress. WordPress even without Akismet installed can put your comments into spam. The blogger can put your information into the blacklist function in their individual blogs or can use the function that only allows comments to go live immediately IF you already have a comment approved using THAT EXACT wording in the name field.

Your comment above was NOT in spam but it was held for moderation probably because you haven’t used that combination of name and keywords before when commenting here.

We all need to be careful about jumping to unwarranted conclusions. I DO moderate comments and I do NOT approve every comment. I delete tons of manually left spam comments and even so I approve more than I should.

One of these days I need to make time to start deleting a lot of them but it is not all that easy to decide which to keep and which to delete because many new bloggers leave very weak comments and many spammers leave fairly good comments.

If we held a spam judging contest I can bet there will be no consensus on what comments are “real” versus which ones are “spam” because there isn’t really any such thing. Someone live who could have read or at least skimmed each post wrote them both.

What’s a “grey” IP address?
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By: vgv8

vgv8 — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 01:05:37 +0000

Good point because this Gail’s blog also dump my comment by Akismet from whatever Email I try to write. I ‘m writing from grey IP-address which, I believe, is blacklisted

So, Gail also reactivated Akismet I believe soon after writing anti-Akismet articles.

Well, the point is that CAPTCHA alone, even stopping bots or whichever good, will not stop spam. As soon as blog is popular it will attract manual spammers
Also protection is ongoing activity, you cannot install some good solution hoping to solve the spam issues once and forever.

Though, I would prefer to pass CAPTCHAs (including questions) then guessing – have I burned my time in vain writing a comment and will it be seen by a blog owner