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When I post comments on WP blogs, comments disappear. Site owner confirms comment in spam. How do I get out of WordPress spam comment jail?
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Is it happening on both Wordpress.com blogs and installed blogs?
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I think that they are self hosted blogs.
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Try leaving a comment on the Tweetworks blog. It's Wordpress.com hosted.
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Done. And, nothing as before.
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@fairminder That's weird. Did you change anything recently? This comment wasn't caught in spam http://is.gd/vnFk back in Jan.
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I assume that you clicked "not spam" for both comments. That might help the situation.
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@fairminder But of course sir.
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that happens to me - but my email address is redundant - mari @ mariadkins.com. akismet catches me every time until it learns.
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@MariAdkins How quick a learner is Akismet and how do you teach it?
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Confirmed this issue is not related to my IP address by leaving 2 comments on 1 blog with different name, email and website. Only 1 posted.
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@fairminder Is the IP your office IP or your website's IP?
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You have to continually tell Askisment "this isn't spam" - it learns. Takes it about a week of commenting.
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@MariAdkins But Jim posted a comment on my blog awhile back from the same IP, website & email and it wasn't caught in spam. Hmm?
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I have no idea.
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Filled out form here http://akismet.com/contact/ about comments being marked as spam on WP. Received apology and note that it is now fixed.
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The mystery of never posting WordPress blog comments was due to Akismet's failure. Post here - http://cli.gs/DisappearingComments
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I've disabled Akismet because of problems like this & just use reCAPTCHA now as a SPAM filter. Have no problems & no automated SPAM
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Interest point. Great for your visitors. My issue was specifically with leaving comments on other blogs, unrelated to my blog.
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i'll have to look into recaptcha. awesome. @fairminder glad you got your issue fixed!
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i installed recaptcha and like it so far. awesome!
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I decided to try recaptcha too, but now I'm being spammed with (drug-related) trackback every few minutes. What the heck??
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I went back to akismet after getting so much spam it was driving me insane. Apparently enough possibilities to avoid recaptcha after all..
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@falleri Trackback's unfortunately aren't controlled by reCAPTCHA
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@falleri If they are all coming from 1 IP address you should be able to label the trackback as SPAM under comments which will block the IP.
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ah that explains a lot. but then how to avoid that without akismet? I labeled it as spam, but that didn't do me any good, it kept coming..
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@falleri Have you tried disabling trackbacks for a couple weeks? This may time out the SPAM feeding server from posting to your blog.
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@EricGuerin Thanks, I have now disabled that, disabled akismet and reactivated recaptcha.. let's see how that goes!
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so far, so good..
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Have you tried using a different email address to sign up? Sometimes specific ones get blacklisted for some reason.
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Either that or a spammer has actually used your computer to send their crap! You can protect yourself. Check it out here. http://is.gd/370Uw
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