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so i was fishing around and i came up with a workaround. i’d still like to know where the two different numbers are coming from, but in the mean time you can make these changes to akismet.php:

line 727		), 'https://akismet.com/', number_format_i18n( $count + 68155 ) );

line 839  		$count = 68155 + number_format_i18n(get_option('akismet_spam_count'));

where 68155 is the difference between your two spam counts. this is for my previously stated version of akismet, 2.2.3.

oh, and you may need to surf around the code a bit to make other changes depending on where you want to use <?php akismet_counter(); ?>… but i’ll leave that up to y’all

howdy.

sonofbruce: i found your post and have a similar issue. i have two widely different counts and its not due to posts deleted. i am running WP 2.7 | akismet 2.2.3.

my dashboard says that akismet has spam-ssassinated 957 comment spams. however the akismet stats page on my site gives my correct counts of 69,###.

this issue first manifest itself after installing WP on a new server and populating the mysql database with a previously exported table backup. of course, there have been a few WP and akismet upgrades since then but i believe the reinstall as the issue.

for reference, the akismet counter also shows the lower number and not the more correct higher number.

of course, no one likes spam but if i’m going to keep track of things i’d like a consistent reading.

does anyone have insight into which two data sets akismet is querying so i can rewrite things or otherwise realign my stats?

i am happy to report that popularity contest 1.2b has fixed my problems.

awesome!!

i noticed one other thing that appears to be new-ish. perhaps this may lead me closer to the fix.

when i click on the ‘update popularity values’ button from my admin page i get a new page with a message:

OK

The document has moved here.

here is linked to a page on my site:
https://mysiteisntpopularanymore.net/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=popularity-contest.php&updated=true

i dont recall this always being the case with the buttons function. can anyone confirm for me that the button takes them to a similar page versus some other action?

ive read a few other posts with similar issues (only crediting comments to popularity). to add to my troubleshooting heres what ive done:

switched themes to default and deactivated all plugins at once (other than popularity, of course). this resulted in no change to my issue.

ive got the same issue. ive got both popularity contest and google sitemaps plugins installed. after reading this post i deactivated my sitemaps plugin and tried to generate some stats by clicking through my site. it didnt seem to work so i deleted the sitemap directory from my server… and still nothing. i am curious if anyone found a solution to this issue?

i found this googling. i am also looking to make sure the embedded gallery’s page tab is active. right now when i select my gallery it is set as the active page tab… but my ‘main’ tab is also active/white.

the search continues…

i signed up for a wordpress.com blog. once i got my API i went to my wordpress.com blog and deleted the account.

so far, tha API still works on my non wordpress.com site. however it got me thinking, if the API doesnt need to be validated against a legit blog doesnt this leave room for exploitation and/or transfering of API’s?

but i could be wrong me and my friends have been too busy
bathing off of St. Barts with spider monkeys for the past two weeks. Tripping on acid changed our whole perspective on stuff.

the seach function brought me to this and other helpful posts. thanks. the support here is great!!!

thanks Kafkaesqui!