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Here We Go Again, Akismet Is Eating My Comments

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nospam.jpg Way back in November of 2006, Akismet started eating my comments. I have no idea why except somewhere, somehow, I got stuck in someone’s Moderation or Spam cue and ended up being reported as Spam to Akismet.

At the time, I wrote a post about My Comments being Eaten. I got some good advice from my friends, but it just took a lot of perseverance and de-spamming to get the problem solved.

I do moderate my comments and try to de-spam everyone who makes legitimate comments, but it is starting to get a little overwhelming with well over 500 spams caught a day. It is getting to be very time consuming and takes away from other business responsibilities.

I know exactly When it started, but not Why. I was participating in Open Comment Night over as Successful Blog and had No Problems. But after I left and answered a comment on my own blog, My comment didn’t show. I immediately went into Akismet (after my last experience) to see if it was there. Shore enough, I was caught, right there in my own Akismet cue.

The last time, it went on for over a full week which led me to write a rant called Akismet Sucks. I was so fed up with not being able to comment anywhere I almost stopped using Akismet. However, not too long after that post, things started showing in my comments that I had written, then they started showing in other peoples comments on their blogs.

The problem went away all by itself, really with a lot of perseverance and monitoring of comments, and I got happy again and stayed with Akismet.

So, help me out here, if I comment on your Blog and it ends up in your spam cue, Please release me, let me go.

Hopefully, it wont take as long as the last episode. I don’t need the aggravation.


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    May 23rd, 2007 at 10:35am | Posted by Joe | Akismet, Commenting, Rants | 4 reader remarks | Print This Post

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    4 Reader Remarks

    1. Your situation makes me glad I don’t use Aksimet, Joe.

      Input by Rick Cockrum | May 23, 2007 @ 12:18 pm

    2. Hey Rick,
      I’m thinking about changing to something else, if this isn’t fixed soon.
      (I already know that I’ll have to go de-spam this comment)
      What Do you use? I should at least look into it. ;-)

      Input by Joe | May 23, 2007 @ 12:30 pm

    3. I never used Aksimet. I’ve used Spam Karma 2 since I started blogging. It’s done a bang-up job for me, rarely giving either false positives or false negatives. When it can’t decide about a comment, it puts it in moderation and sends me an email to tell me about it. If you decide to check other options, it’s worth looking at.

      Input by Rick Cockrum | May 23, 2007 @ 12:41 pm

    4. Thanks Rick,
      If I decide to change, that will be the first place I look. I know I can trust your recommendation. :-)

      Input by Joe | May 23, 2007 @ 12:48 pm

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