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• 12 posts
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• Started 2 years ago by johnhiler
• Latest reply from _ck_
• This topic is not resolved

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• akismet
• spam

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Akismet going nuts today?

1. • 
   • johnhiler
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   All my forums are filling up with tons of false positives today... lots of normal posts being marked as spam.

   Anyone else facing the wrath of Akismet today?
2. • 
   • Shagalaga
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/#post-760
3. • 
   • chrishajer
   • Moderator

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   Not having that experience here. Akismet has been accurate today.
4. • 
   • johnhiler
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   Yah I use Human Test - it's great!

   Ah ok, maybe it's just me... I've had maybe 100 comments go into spam today!
5. • 
   • _ck_
   • Moderator

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   Is skip-akismet at least protecting your moderator+admin posts?

   Akismet can be very problematic.
6. • 
   • johnhiler
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   _ck_ - I'm using your skip-akismet plugin and thank goodness! At least my authors/moderators/admins are spared this.

   Akismet is going absolutely bonkers on all nine of my bbpress and WordPress installs... it just started a few days ago. I thought maybe it was connected to skip-akismet, but some of the *press installs aren't using skip-akismet and they are still having problems!
7. • 
   • Sam Bauers
   • Key Master

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   Seems there is lots of ham being incorrectly sent from bbPress as spam. This may be having a knock on effect elsewhere. I'm trying to track down the problem with these false reports from bbPress at the moment.
8. • 
   • johnhiler
   • Member

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   Thank goodness... the Akismet craziness stopped! Finally getting a "normal" amount of spam.

   What an exhausting experience! I'll never rely on Akismet again...
9. • 
   • _ck_
   • Moderator

   • Posted 2 years ago #

   I have another idea for skip-akismet - an option that if there are no links in the post, don't bother checking akismet. Not too many spammers are link-free, it would serve no point.

   Wouldn't work on the WP side where they can put URLs as anonymous but I can use the logic that if they are a member and don't put any links in their post, just let it through.
10. • 
    • Ipstenu
    • Member

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    That may not be a bad check in general for Akismet, actually. Even on WP, if a logged in member posts something without links, it should be 'okay'.
11. • 
    • Sam Bauers
    • Key Master

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    The user link can be a spam link though.
12. • 
    • _ck_
    • Moderator

    • Posted 2 years ago #

    Another idea would be if that the user is X days old
    and has already made X number of posts to skip Akismet.

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