kjpweb

No problems with updating to 2.9 at all.

However – if the Hello Dolly plugin alone was not annoying enough – now there are smartass quotes in the dashboard? What are you guys thinking?
It’s not smart, it’s not funny, it’s not cool – just an unnecessary annoyance, that’s there to stroke someone’s ego.

Just found something that might help:
Akismet with local Whitelist
I deployed it and will see, if it works.
Not a perfect solution, but a start.

Have you gotten anywhere with the Whitelist feature?
Some of my trusted commenters always land in moderation and it’s a bit annoying – so I’m all for a feature like that.

Problem solved – it is an incompatibility issue between Nextgen and the Multibox plugin.