Comments on: Akismet Problems

By: Gavin Ingham

Gavin Ingham — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:21:01 +0000

Firstly, great blog… so much of interest and use on it.

And secondly, on to Askimet!! Until about 3 months or so ago Askimet span worked fine for me stopping 90%+ of spam and with what seemed high accuracy. Then over night everything changed. Askimet stopped catching spam and stopped being able to see what was and what was not spam.

I am sure that I do not get that much spam compared to some but comments on other sites such as read your spam comments are not really practical (I get several hundred a day and rising) and totally negate the point of having it in the first place.

Over the last day or two the stats were as follows…

Total comments & spam 359.
Awaiting moderation 174 – Spam 170, legitimate 4.
Askimet spam 185 – Spam 168, legitimate 7.

This would imply that Askimet is guessing and not that well at that. I have emailed Askimet to ask for advice but would be interested if anyone else has experienced a rapid change in fortunes with Askimet, what caused it and what the solution is…

By: 我爱水煮鱼 » Akismet

我爱水煮鱼 » Akismet — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:37:02 +0000

[…] 第一个并且最常见的问题是它错误的辨别垃圾留言，我在很多安装 Akismet 的 blog 的留言都被认为是垃圾留言，当然我不是唯一抱怨这个的。 […]

By: WeblogToolsCollection Español » Blog Archive » APAD: Akismet

WeblogToolsCollection Español » Blog Archive » APAD: Akismet — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:21:08 +0000

[…] El primero y mas frecuente de los problemas son positivos falsos. Mis comentarios en algunos blogs que tienen Akismet han sido marcados como spam. y yo no el único quejándose de esto. […]

By: Weblog Tools Collection » Blog Archive » APAD: Akismet

Weblog Tools Collection » Blog Archive » APAD: Akismet — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:27:00 +0000

[…] The first and the more frequent of problems is false positives. My comments on several blogs running Akismet have been flagged as spam. And I am not the only one complaining about this. […]

By: hanji

hanji — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:12:50 +0000

I started noticing severe Akismet problems yesterday. Lastnight, no comments from anyone/anywhere would be accepted. This morning, I thought it was fixed, but it’s still catching a lot of ham. I’ve been running with akismet for about 4 months, without a single false positive until yesterday.. now it’s letting 10% of the comments through.. and no spam is being sent to my site.

Hopefully this will get corrected soon.

hanji

By: Rich Boakes

Rich Boakes — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 12:49:25 +0000

Hi Mike, perhaps this will help with the false-positive identification: http://boakes.org/akismet-worst-offenders
If it’s useful, let me know

By: MMRT daily life

MMRT daily life — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 03:05:12 +0000

[MM]Akismet Problems

どうやら今年初頭から既に問題になっていたようで・・・
＞Akismet Problems
日本でも問題になりそうな予感も・・・。
＞Akismetの誤判定
そして、私。
依然としてスパマー扱い。ということ…

By: Tov

Tov — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:16:52 +0000

I tried wordpress. It was a spam magnet. Needs Captchas, and IP Bans and word bans and more like pMachinePro.

By: {clausmoser|com}

{clausmoser|com} — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:18:00 +0000

Bad Kismet

Sieht so aus, als ob es bei einigen Bloggern Probleme mit Akismet gibt. Akismet ist die Anti-Spam-Software, die Matt Mullenwegs Automattic für WordPress entwickelt hat und die in der Version 2.0 als Plugin mitgeliefert wird.
Akismet soll vor allem Ko…

By: » Holding off on Akismet Spam

» Holding off on Akismet Spam — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:22:37 +0000

[…] At first I thought I was the only one getting this problem but further research led me to Mike Little’s own Akismet woes. […]