Akismet letting record spam by – new version soon?

  • Akismet has been letting record amounts of spam through the past several weeks. Is there any way to improve this in the short term while we wait for a new version?

    Please advise. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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  • If I understand how Akismet works, a new version wouldn’t do anything for stopping spam.

    I believe it checks your comments against a list hosted elsewhere, the plugin interfaces between your site and akismet servers.

    In the meantime, try adding this plugin if you are interested:
    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/cookies-for-comments/

    That one stops the auto spam bots before they even get to post comments. Its been helpful for me

    Thread Starter dsquared

    (@dsquared)

    Thank you. Installed. Will report back if that doesn’t cure it. ??

    Thread Starter dsquared

    (@dsquared)

    Is there settings in that plugin to change? I’m still getting spam comments?

    Other ideas? If I don’t get a solution, I will have to turn off comments all together. ??

    Moderator Tellyworth

    (@tellyworth)

    dsquared, it looks like most of the comments you’re reporting as missed spam were actually caught by Akismet. Something is causing the Akismet result to be ignored.

    There should be a History link below each comment. If you click on that for some of the missed spam, it might give a clue. Pop over to https://akismet.com/contact/ to send us the details and we’ll try to get to the bottom of it. It might help if you can send a list of the plugins you have installed.

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