Get Off Akismet Spam List

All my comments (although i am not a spammer) are cached spam by akismet. i contact with Akismet support but they just said that Akismet has not a blacklist. But i am sure it has. i tested it by sending same comment using a different url. And it successfully went to comment moderation section. Some people say that the only way is writing comment to your own blogs and mark them as "not spam". i did but i could not escape from spam box for others blogs.

So how do you find out if your blacklisted by Akismet?

Thank you for this post, I think I've been removed for now.

Akismet has been a real pain for me lately. Not a spammer yet they have blocked me. It's really hard to get off, unless you email all the sites you leave comments and ask them to remove you from the spam list, then if you get enough of these akismet removes you from the spam list. not sure what the number is.

I've been blocked by askimet for no reason and it's frustrating as hell. I did not do anything wrong and I tried contacting the askimet team twice but not answer. Can you please approve my comment to try to improve my askimet reputation. thanks :)

Some comments are legitimate but Akismet detected them as spam. Many people tried to contact them but they never got a reply back and yet they still on blocked list. That's really bad :(

Sad to say they are right akismet do block comments even they are legitimate and the only options you can do is ask for a friend blogger to manually check your comment at the spam box or contact akismet and tell that you were caught accidentally.

Jay

Hey, even I think I am blocked by akismet. I tried contacting them but never got a reply back. I think they are really pissed at me and I don't know why. Is there any way they can take me off their stupid blacklist.

I just find out that akismet is spamming my comments. I don't know who flagged me as a spammer but I can't get out of the spam sandbox right now. I guess I have to contact akismet myself!

I think its good to have this Akismet spam filter on your website. But it would be nice if you as a user would get some feedback when Akismet kick's out your comment. I think most people will not know what's going on when there comments do not get posted.

That is what happen to me, I was blacklisted but I do not know why? maybe my competitor???

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...

Sadly the Akismet checking blog at Podz seems to have been closed. Is there anywhere else to go? Cheers!

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...

According to an Akismet employee I emailed with, ther is no such thing as a "black list".

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.

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.

I didn't even stop to think this could be happening! For sure I will be doing some testing!

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 ;)

Hey Justin,

This is most common problem. I there are many bloggers who are not aware of this.

Thanks for the link.

~Dev