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You may be aware of the issue I was having with Akismet generating a false positive for spam on my comments, as detailed in my post HowTo Deal With Akismet False Positives. As detailed in the post, I got in touch with a blogger or two who agreed I was not in fact a spammer and marked my post accordingly, submitted Akismet’s contact form and of course made a post detailing the whole thing. I did also post a comment on the Akismet blog using my other domain as the submitted URL. Later I found Matt Mullenweg’s contact form on his site and bugged him about it, too.
I always expected the problem to be resolved, but it came even quicker than I figured. It’s Christmas time so you’d figure it’s going to take a few extra days. That’d be no surprise. What was a surprise is that just a few hours later, The Matt himself fixed it. A couple hours later, Mark from WordPress.com support sent me an email asking me to do a test post, as he’d seen my posting on the Akismet blog. 2 good quick responses — that’s pretty hard to beat!
Thanks again to Matt and the WordPress / Akismet team! While I find it super difficult to actually type the name correctly (starts off Akist, then I correct to Akisment, then I get it right…EVERY time!) even though I can spell it just fine, it is easy to use and the support certainly has been helpful.
Tags: Akismet, false positive, resolved, WordPress Plugins, WordPress.com
4 responses so far ↓
1 Frank C // Dec 24, 2007 at 5:39 pm
Let’s see if I’m still blocked by Akismet. It appears that you’re OK now since both your trackback and post showed up OK on OpTempo.
2 Clearwater Beach Real Estate // Dec 28, 2007 at 3:31 am
I have a friend who always goes into everyone’s spam and she’s not spam - I’m going to send her here to see if she can get herself straightened out.
Glad Michael Martine helped me find this blog.
3 Albuquerque Homes // Dec 28, 2007 at 4:07 am
I already commented on your first post but wanted to add a bit more here. First off YEA for the fast fix. Second I didn’t get marked as spam on your site. That is good as well. Hopefully I will find a fast resolution around the blogosphere as you have. - Ashley
4 Robert // Dec 28, 2007 at 6:48 am
Yep — if you showed up fine here, you’ll be good on any other Akismet-protected site. Your comments here were not marked spam and came through normally. Congratulations.
Apparently the problem was more widespread than I thought.
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