Comments being marked “Spam” for no reason

  • I’ve been using the Akismet plugin to sort out spam comments for over 2 years now and find it quite effective.

    A commenter has been frequenting our site for months and posting comments regularly without incident… until a few weeks ago, all his comments get marked as “Awaiting Moderation” and need to be approved before they appear publicly. As far as I can tell, nothing has changed — his email address is the same. He is not using any blacklisted words, yet ALL of his comments get marked for moderation.

    Any idea what could cause this?

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  • Your commenter could have managed to on a spam blacklist somewhere. I can happen, even to good people. I know a publisher who periodically gets blacklisted. She sends and receives thousands of legitimate emails a month and once and awhile some of them snags on a filter somewhere– usually a hotmail one. I’m not well versed in the intricacies of Akismet’s spam filtering though. If you approve a comment, things don’t improve?

    Thread Starter krez

    (@krez)

    apljdi,

    when i approve a comment, things do not improve. still, his comments get marked for moderation no matter what.

    is there some kind of “whitelist” plugin available?

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