Comments Sometimes Flagged as Spam

27 January, 2010 - 07:00 AM - 12 Comments

I have noticed that occasionally Akismet plugin for WordPress will mark someones comments as spam and send their comment straight into my spam bucket instead of holding a comment for moderation or auto approving it if a user has previously been accepted. I get about 40-50 SPAM comments per hour on DragonBlogger.com and I can’t sift through pages and pages of SPAM comments on a daily basis trying to weed out which ones are and aren’t spam. I generally check my SPAM folder every other day and try to weed out and approve comments that were inadvertently marked as SPAM, if any of my readers notice a comment not published please let me know.

I don’t ever reject a legitimate comment on my blog, and I don’t delete comments. If you suspect your comment was spammed, hit me up on twitter @dragonblogger, or via the contact form on my blog and let me know to dig for it and mark it as “not-spam” and approve.

I have had a few people let me know their comments were marked as spam, and after approving their comments about six or seven times Akismet no longer marks their comment as spam, so it is an adaptive system and appears to train by your actions to comments very well.

-Dragon Blogger

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Dan

Good to know, considering I don't ever really mess with akismet I had no idea why sometime I got a spam feedback message. So i suppose I just have to be more observant with what I am saying and whether or not it was put up on the site.

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Justin Germino

Usually keywords can be triggered as SPAM but also certain misspellings which are common to spammers can cause you to be flagged as spam even though it was a simple typo.

Mel@Naples luxury homes

Well, Akismet does these types of problems and I admit that after all it's only a software and may have faults but I don't get it...why do you network all the sites? I mean do you people know that if a person is blocked by Akismet on one blog, he/she will remain blocked on all other blogs having Akismet? That's ridiculous in my opinion. If a person on blog1 has marked a person's comment as spam, Akismet should block that person's comment again on blog1 only. It may have been marked because of difference of opinions, heated debate or any other thing. We all are different and some may not like what's being said. It really boils me when I see on blogs I know well who have got Akismet plugin installed and still spammers fool Akismet...while people who spend so much time in trying to contribute good on any blog are marked as spam!.

Extreme John

I am having this issue on a few blogs now, I think it's because I changed the reader I use and had to renter all of my data in the fields.

It just sucks because barely anyone checks their spam comments and I feel like they don't realize I am commenting or reciprocating for a comment they were nice enough to leave.

Wouldn't life be so much easier without spam....
.-= Extreme John´s last blog ..Extreme Tan and Smoothies 2009 Recap =-.

dragonblogger

Actually John, didn't you used to use a different email address and that email was always flagged as spam because of the three "x" in them?

Rose

I blogged about this a while ago myself. I check my folder every day now because of it marking non spam comments spam.

Karen @ Blazing Minds

I have the same situation with my blog sometimes, I think it's caused by bloggers that have marked a blogger as SPAM and then it takes a while, I think it's about 5-10 comments, before you don't end up in the SPAM section again, until next time it happens again.
.-= Karen @ Blazing Minds´s last blog ..Interview with Mandy from A Passion To Understand =-.

Ralph

I just discovered that Akismet is not infallible. Also that just because I corrected in once did not mean that it would know better next time. 15 times seems excessive.
.-= Ralph´s last blog ..The Top 10 Reasons to Post Daily =-.

Holly Jahangiri

That's good to know, because I think Akismet really has it in for a few people I know, and it's left me scratching my head, wondering if Akismet does learn. Maybe I just haven't had enough opportunities to train it; I'll have to get these people to leave a few MORE comments. I know WHO they are, though, and they're regular visitors.
.-= Holly Jahangiri´s last blog ..Is Social Media Redefining “Friendship”? =-.

Yeah I had one reader who had 15-20 comments flagged as SPAM, then it just stopped happening to their comments.

Dennis Edell

Hmm, wonder if your both referring to the same person... ;)
.-= Dennis Edell´s last blog ..The Time Has Come. The Deal Is Done. It’s Time To Move!! =-.