Read an awesome article on Zemalf.com last week about comments being blocked by akismet and what you need to do to find out how and if this is happening to you.
I am not going to rewrite the article and exact steps shown in that blog since I want you to read the original article, but will instead give you high level overview and a summary of what you will find in the article and how to tell.
When you leave a comment on a blog and you do not see your comment post right away, it can be held for moderation or immediately blocked by an anti-spam plug-in. Usually you will see a message saying your comment is held for moderation but if you don’t see any message at all, then you can check to see if you are being blocked by the Akismet anti-spam plugin which is one of the most popular ones in use. Note, this won’t work if it is the WP-SpamFree plug-in that is blocking your comment and you really don’t know which plug-in the blogger is using.
The article lists a site that uses Akismet and allows all comments, you test your comment on this site, if it doesn’t show up then you know Akismet has marked you as spam.
Then you can find the contact information for Akismet so you can email them and have them investigate and remove you from their spam list.
So if you find that you are laving comments on others blogs that aren’t showing up, I highly recommend you read the article How to stop your blog comments from being blocked by Akismet on Zemalf.com and hopefully it will solve your problem.
-Dragon Blogger
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June 7th, 2010 at 9:17 am
Hey Justin,
This is most common problem. I there are many bloggers who are not aware of this.
Thanks for the link.
~Dev
Dev | Technshare´s last blog ..Technshare Monthly Report 3: May 2010
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June 7th, 2010 at 9:37 am
It can be a problem with Akismet sometimes, but this is certainly some information that all bloggers should read about, thanks for the heads up Justin
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June 7th, 2010 at 3:47 pm
I didn’t even stop to think this could be happening! For sure I will be doing some testing!
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June 7th, 2010 at 9:27 pm
Thanks for the shout out and little link love
I hope no-one gets their comments blocked as spam by mistake, but since that just happens sometimes – like it did for me – it’s good to know what to do, in case it’s Akismet blocking them.
Antti@Zemalf.com´s last blog ..May 2010 Awesomeness
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June 7th, 2010 at 11:30 pm
No problem, I enjoy finding good articles of value and linking back to them.
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June 8th, 2010 at 1:38 am
I don’t think it’s as simple as “being on the spam list”. Sure, if you’re on the list, your comments would (should) go into the spam folder.
But other than that, you might as well write something that will trigger their spam filter and put you into spam queue – and in your next comment, you go into moderation. It’s usually about writing the correct words/sentences, links, punctutation etc.
Nevertheless, it’s good to make people aware that if they don’t see the “moderation”-notice, their comment got eaten by the spam folder.
Klaus @ TechPatio´s last blog ..iPhone 4 Wrapup from WWDC ‘10 San Francisco
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June 8th, 2010 at 7:00 am
Not true exactly, I know some people who every comment went into Akismet spam bucket, it wasn’t “what they were saying” it was their email was blacklisted.
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June 8th, 2010 at 11:07 am
That’s also what I wrote
Here it is again: “Sure, if you’re on the [black] list, your comments would (should) go into the spam folder.”
Klaus @ TechPatio´s last blog ..iPhone 4 Wrapup from WWDC ‘10 San Francisco
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June 8th, 2010 at 10:31 am
According to an Akismet employee I emailed with, ther is no such thing as a “black list”.
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June 9th, 2010 at 9:29 am
Huh. I’ve been using akismet on my blog. It’s done an awesome job of blocking out most comment spam. But I didn’t think it was so rigid that it would block out organic posts that frequently either.
I’ll keep that in mind…
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June 9th, 2010 at 9:54 am
Check the SPAM folder, Akismet does block legitimate comments sometimes.
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June 19th, 2010 at 3:58 pm
Sadly the Akismet checking blog at Podz seems to have been closed. Is there anywhere else to go? Cheers!
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June 26th, 2010 at 8:48 pm
Having Akismet throw somebody into the trash, and then rescuing their comments is like having someone thrown out of my shop and then hiring someone else to go out there and and brush him or her off…
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June 27th, 2010 at 6:42 am
That is what happen to me, I was blacklisted but I do not know why? maybe my competitor???
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June 27th, 2010 at 10:14 pm
I found your comment in my Akismet spam and rescued it, sorry for the delay.
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