Comments not showing up

  • Resolved zhumuchen

    (@zhumuchen)


    10 years, 2 months ago

    This is a problem I noticed lately on other sites I commented on.
    I have been using the same email address to comment on a few blogs, and suddenly, my comments are not showing up lately. (I contacted a blogger and she found my comment was in spam folder) I noticed all the blogs are using Jetpack, so I thought it’s better to let you know. Is there a way to check this? Should I share the email address I used for commenting?

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  • I believe the Jetpack comment system uses Akismet to filter out spam, so there is a chance your comments might have been flagged as spam more than once, leading to your email getting blacklisted.

    Is there any chance that you include/included more than two links in your comments? Because comments with more links usually get flagged for spam.

    Another cause could be that your IP address matches a known spam generating IP (can happen if your ISP dynamically assigns IP addresses).

    Try posting comments using a different email ID and another IP address (use a VPN tool like Tunnelbear for the second case) and see if the comments are getting approved. If yes, then it’s certain that your email address/IP address has been blacklisted by Akismet.

    Hopefully the Jetpack team helps you further on this. Good luck!

    Thread Starter zhumuchen

    (@zhumuchen)

    Actually it happened once, not long ago. So I contacted Akismet to remove me from blacklist. It worked for a few days, then the comment shopped showing up again!

    It is really strange, because I never include more than one link in the comment, and I generally leave quite long comment.

    Today, I used another email address to post, but the comment didn’t show up either. I’m using the VPN now (Astrill, with proxy).

    Should I contact Akismet again?

    Plugin Author Jeremy Herve

    (@jeherve)

    Jetpack Mechanic ??

    Should I contact Akismet again?

    Yes, I would recommend that you contact Akismet whenever you find yourself blocked.
    You can do so here:
    https://akismet.com/contact/

    Thread Starter zhumuchen

    (@zhumuchen)

    Thanks Jeremy! I have contacted Akismet and they’re working on fixing the problem now.
    Have a great day!

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