Christopher Finke

I’m not sure I understand; can you post a screenshot here or send it to [email protected]?

I’m not sure exactly what issue that would be (although I can think of a few possibilities that I’ll look into), but if you’re getting form submissions of legitimate-seeming information that just turns out to be false, I don’t think Akismet will be helpful. It’s more likely to be competitors wasting their/your time than it is to be spammers, and that kind of behavior isn’t really what Akismet detects.

Hi, I don’t see any missed spam reports from your site; can you mark some of the submitted forms as spam so that we can use them to start researching whether Akismet can catch them more reliably?

What error or issue are you seeing specifically?

I’m going to mark this as resolved, since I don’t think there’s anything else we can do, but if you continue to have spam issues, you can reply to this thread, or reach out directly to us at [email protected].

You should be able to enter the same key you’re using on washingtonsquareparkblog.com for cathrynsworld.com, and it should start working again. Let me know how that goes.

You’re welcome, have a great day.

Hi, it looks like your key was suspended due to a bug on our end, causing all of your spam comments to not get checked after that happened. I’ve unsuspended it so it should begin filtering out spam again, and I apologize for the inconvenience.

For more direct support, you can email us at [email protected] or fill out our contact form at akismet.com/contact/, but we do check the forums every day and make a point of responding to any new posts or comments as quickly as possible.

I’ve been looking at your missed spam reports, and I’m not sure that there’s much more Akismet can do on these kinds of submissions. There’s very little actual content in the submissions, typically just a single short phrase like “Merci” or “I’m interested in your offerings” (in French), so Akismet does not have much to go on. This might be a scenario where a Captcha or some other challenge field is more appropriate.

Yes, we’ll continue to watch for any missed spam and make adjustments accordingly.

If something tried to access [yoursite.com]/wp-content/plugins/akismet/views/config.php directly, this would be an expected error. If that error occurred during regular interaction with your site, it’s more likely due to corrupted or missing plugin files, which should be fixable by reinstalling the plugin. Let me know which it was and whether reinstalling fixes the issue.

No, it’s not intended as a defense against unwelcome user signups.

The duplicate alt_s field is not added by Akismet. Based on this thread: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/alternative-email-field-visible/ I think it is probably coming from WP Armour.

We’ll keep it in mind as an official feature, but in the meantime, you could enable this behavior by adding a plugin like this:

<?php

add_action( 'init', function () {
  if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
    remove_action( 'preprocess_comment', array( 'Akismet', 'auto_check_comment' ), 1 ); 
  }
}, 99 );

This worked on my site when I saved it as wp-content/mu-plugins/akismet-no-logged-in-check.php, but you’ll want to test and confirm that it works for you before deploying it.

Alright. I’m going to mark this as resolved, but if you do need help with Akismet in the future, don’t hesitate to reach out.