Info
- 9 posts
- 3 voices
- Started 1 year ago by hlwinkler
- Latest reply from Ben L.
- This topic is not resolved
Akismet is reporting that it found spam, but I can't see it
-
Hello,
Yesterday in the Akismet stats I noticed that Akismet had marked a couple of posts as spam so I searched for posts marked as spam, found them, saw they they were false positives, and un-spammed them. Today I see in the Akismet stats that Akismet has marked 8 more posts as spam. But, when I search for posts with the status spam or deleted, nothing shows up. What do I need to do in order to see everything that Akismet marked as spam? Thanks.
-
I have been forced to stop using it because the likelihood of false positive is quite high, since most forum members are verified. That is really a bummer that there is an existing bug with posts being marked as spam that are unable to be seen and now I'm wondering how many times it has happened that I haven't noticed since I opened my forum.
-
In the admin panel, go to the posts tab and change the filter to show posts with the status "spam". Akismet puts all the spam posts there, and as far as I know, it never removes them without your consent.
Akismet works fine for forums. I haven't noticed any false positives for over a year.
-
Hi Ben,
Thank you for your reply - if you give my question a quick re-read it starts from my already having gone to the posts tab and changed the filter to show posts with the status spam. Since I couldn't see any of the 12 new spammed posts reported by Akismet there, it was at that point that I decided to ask here where they are sent to.
As I mentioned, I did have false positives, so the mystery 12 posts are pretty disconcerting since it is a low-volume support forum (i.e., any questions that get false positives or a mysterious disappearance tend to make me look like I'm ignoring or refusing people with support issues unless I notice them and restore them quickly, which isn't possible in this case).
-
You must log in to post.
