{"id":416,"date":"2007-04-22T19:42:40","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T00:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2007\/04\/22\/fixing-akismet-comment-false-positives\/"},"modified":"2012-11-24T08:27:05","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T13:27:05","slug":"fixing-akismet-comment-false-positives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2007\/04\/22\/fixing-akismet-comment-false-positives\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixing Akismet Comment False Positives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Scoble posted today about Akismet and the spam filtering features that save him time. But there are times those misclassified posts can cause escalation of a discussion into something more accusatory like deleting comments \u2013 that is not fun. For example, Danny Sullivan posting comments<\/a> on Blake Ross\u2019 blog<\/a> late last year and the perception that Danny\u2019s comment had been deleted.<\/p>\n

I had a similar problem to Danny<\/a> recently that I was able to fix using the unique learning features of Akismet.<\/p>\n

If you are a WordPress blogger and you are having the problem of Akismet treating your comments as spam, please try following the following steps:
\n1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Go to your blog on the computer that you have had the problems posting comments
\n2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Make certain that you are signed out of your admin panel
\n3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Find a post on your blog and post several comments with your email and URL manually the way you would on another person\u2019s blog
\n4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Login to your WordPress admin panel and mark the \u201cspam\u201d comments then \u201cde-mark spam comments\u201d
\n5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Repeat steps 1-4 above periodically until the comments stop being marked as spam<\/p>\n

I hope that some people currently having this problem find this potential solution to be as helpful to them as it was for me. If you can think of someone who has this problem who is also a WordPress blogger, please pass this post on to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robert Scoble posted today about Akismet and the spam filtering features that save him time. But there are times those misclassified posts can cause escalation of a discussion into something more accusatory like deleting comments \u2013 that is not fun. For example, Danny Sullivan posting comments on Blake Ross\u2019 blog late last year and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-wordpress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t