UPDATE:
Thank you all for your support during my time of need. Akismet has stopped marking my comments as spam as of late July 11th!
Hurrah! (?)
We interrupt our regular programming to bring you the following
Public Service Announcement:
My Comments on WordPress Blogs are being marked as SPAM! They are NOT!
Apparently, Akismet, the company that does the spam filtering on many WordPress blogs, has decided that my comments are spam. Yes, really. I know this because a) when I try to comment on someone’s WP blog with my WP profile, the comment disappears without a trace, and b) some people have told me that they found my comments in their spam inboxes.
UPDATE: Today (July 11), for the first time since I started this blog, I found TWO perfectly legitimate comments from readers in MY spam inbox!
Watch out people… Aksimet is acting up. Don’t post comments on blogs and close the page before you check to see if it shows up, or shows as “awaiting moderation.” If you don’t see either of these, that’s a sign that YOUR comment has been marked as spam!
I’m trying to get this fixed, but in the meanwhile, I would appreciate your taking a look in your spam inboxes to see if there are any of my comments there. If so, it would be nice if you could please mark them as not spam and approve them (or delete them, as you wish).
Many thanks in advance.
We now return you to your regular programming!
I got a really weird comment earlier this week which was obviously spam because it was full of strange symbols, but it’d got through – whereas a normal comment the previous week had gone into spam. It does seem to be being moody ATM!
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Well, it all worked out, and more than that, I think they hit on some kind of a bug because apparently I wasn’t the only one complaining.
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When you left a comment the other day, I thought it went into spam because I had been away for so long, not because of you. I should have said something then. Glad you were made aware of it. I wonder why it happened, though…
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Who knows? I hope it gets sorted soon!
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Hopefully, it will get sorted out for you.
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Ugh, I’ve had this problem a few times, too. The last time WordPress had a huge ‘hate InvisiblyMe’ phase 99% of my comments went to spam folders, I emailed Akismet and they resolved the issue eventually, but there are still the occasional ones that get marked up. I hope Akismet sort it out for you soon! x
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Thanks. I hope this gets cleared up soon, too.
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Your comment showed up on mine!
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Yes, but only because I changed to my twitter account.
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How annoying. There has been some general problems with Akismet on self-hosted blogs, but if you have this issue on all the pages you comment on, I guess this is different.
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Awwww….this is sad! I’m sorry it’s happening to you💔 Such a hassle and so discouraging!😢
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Grrrr! Yours come through on mine just fine, Davida. 🙂
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FYI! This comment showed up in my spam box!
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Boo! Dislike!
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The only reason my comment showed up on yours was because I used my Twitter account to post it.
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How crazy! Hope they get it fixed soon 💕
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Frustrating! I’ve seen this happen with several people lately. Hopefully it gets fixed for you soon.
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Guess what? It happened with your comment just now. This is the first time I’ve had comments show up in my spam box!
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Thank you for letting me know! Trying to get it sorted now.
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Well, apparently I’m now out of that jail! My comments are going through fine.
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Oh no, I hope this gets fixed for you soon.
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This happened to me last week!! Took days of going back and forth to Akismet to get it fixed!
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Thanks! I’ve written to them and let’s hope I’ve gotten the ball rolling!
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I’m back to business this week but no idea on why it happened! Fingers crossed for you!
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