Tag Archives: Akismet

A Rare False Positive

October 26, 2008 – 2:27 pm

For the first time in a long time, Akismet mistakenly flagged a non-spam comment. The auto-flush spam comments on old posts has trimmed the spam cesspit by a huge margin, so non-spam comments are easier to find.
And, I plucked James‘ comment out of the dreck, and it’s available to all.
Not beating up on [...]

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Slickness is Slick

September 17, 2008 – 8:34 pm

As documented here, I activated the heretofore unnoticed Automatically discard spam comments on posts older than a month checkbox in the Akismet WordPress plugin.
A month or so in, and my spam trap went from ginormous1 to next to none. And I can much more easily find any false positives that make it into [...]

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Akismet Slickness

August 17, 2008 – 2:43 pm

I don’t know how long this option has been in Akismet, but there’s now a checkbox labeled Automatically discard spam comments on posts older than a month
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Following the recent WordPress 2.6.1 upgrade, I noticed the option when reactivating plugins post-upgrade. I checked it, and my incoming spam trap has been squeaky clean. This is [...]

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An Overnight Milestone

November 15, 2007 – 7:29 am

While I slept, the Akismet spam trap caught its 30,000th; spam comment. I personally thank the on-line pharmacies, car quote places, Hold ‘em poker sites, and most of all those prolific porno sites, for making this all possible.
Thanks, Akismet! Now, on to 100k!
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