Comments on: Akismet – the Danger of Collective Intelligence (and why I don’t use it)

By: MikeT

MikeT — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:38:11 +0000

All I know is that my comments keep getting blocked on the wordpress.com blogs I visit…

By: archGFX Habari

archGFX Habari — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:03:48 +0000

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By: archGFX | Defensio Â· Outsmarting Evil Spam

archGFX | Defensio Â· Outsmarting Evil Spam — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:46:34 +0000

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By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:30:22 +0000

Engtech

I am actually quite sick of Akismet, because I haven’t got time to monitor every blog I link to to see if a trackback was pulled out of the sin bin.

It happened recently on Scobleizer again, and he didn’t know I was part of the “conversation”

Hmm… is Akismet sending email addresses to Akismet.com?

By: DianeV

DianeV — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:29:56 +0000

Thanks, Engtech. That happened to me on my own blog, so this will come in handy!

By: engtech

engtech — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:19:41 +0000

I wonder if Akismet takes the amount of time on the page into consideration like how Spam Karma does?

That might be the source of my problems… I’m a very fast commenter :)

I wrote a piece for Lorelle On WordPress where I talked about two things you can do if Akismet is always marking your own comments as spam.

http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/help-akismet-spams-my-own-comments/

By: Artem

Artem — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:39:45 +0000

Thank you for this, Andy.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:31:25 +0000

What I currently use is Spam Karma, and optionally you can use Akismet as an additional filter within Spam Karma.

By: Artem

Artem — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:53:05 +0000

Well, what is the alternative of Akismet, Andy? My blog receive more than 20 spam comments per day. I was tired to delete it until Akismet was installed. What is the alternative?

By: Bush Mackel » Am I Now Nothing But Spam to Akismet? - Technology is Where I Live and the Web is Where I Work.

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:54:03 +0000

[...] (BTW, I found a good article about this kind of behavior, check it out.) [...]