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My own blog thinks I’m a spammer
Even though I stay logged in to WordPress on my own computers, my blog seems to think that I am a spammer. It’s filtering all of my comments.
I use Akismet for spam filtering, and for the most part, it does a great job. Except it hates me.
Before I installed Akismet, I was dealing with literally hundreds of spam comments per day. Now, sometimes one comment slips through here and there, but no big deal. And from looking at the archive of comments it has deleted, I don’t think it’s deleting other people’s comments. Just mine.
Akismet claims to be smart, and then you unflag comments as spam and undelete them, it’ll learn from its mistakes. Which appears to be true — some comments it used to let through its filters it now correctly catches. But once again, I’ve told it literally a dozen times now that I am in fact not spamming my own blog, but it’s not listening.
My only theory is that perhaps my own blog is angry at me for some reason. Blog, if you are angry, I apologize. I know, I know, how can I be truly sorry if I don’t know what I did? Just trust me, blog. I am sorry. Please stop blocking my comments and making me go in and force them to be unblocked. It makes me feel like I don’t trust you, and like you don’t trust me. Let’s be friends again.
Mon June 5th, 2006 9:31 pm
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Maybe it knows you better than you think it does. Maybe you really are spamming your own blog. Did you ever think of that?
Poor AK.
Well, thats why you should use Akismet as a second line spam defense. The first line being Bad Behavior. Though it’s beta…but it works and works really well.
You might have to take it out for a nice dinner and give it a neck rub.
Edrei: Thanks for the tip… I’ll look into it.
Mal: Hm. Sounds like a decent idea…
Ironically, it thought your comment was spam, Rob. Go figure. I just told it otherwise. Let’s see if it learns.