Akismet Sucks
Looks like I am a spammer. Damn it, I hate you Akismet.
Sigh, I thought Akismet is a good anti-spam plugin. Even Edrei recommends it. I’ve been writing comments at my own blog, and it identifies me a SPAM!!! Not once, but TWICE!! This is insane!! Is it like the blog author spam his own blog? That sucks, totally.
Looks like I will be using the combination of Bad Behavior and Hash-Cash for now.
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November 1st, 2005 at 11:42 am
Did you hit the “Not Spam” button?
November 1st, 2005 at 11:47 am
Yes, I did. That is how I recovered the comments I’ve posted in my own blog. Akismet caught my comment as spam twice. Is it because Akismet failed to report false positive when I clicked “Not Spam” button?
November 1st, 2005 at 10:39 pm
use spam karma2 and bad behaviour
November 1st, 2005 at 11:29 pm
Now i think you’re going to have to be my senior in WordPress
You work hard on your SPM also la…:P
November 3rd, 2005 at 12:54 am
Hahaha…funny ass. That’s something to report though. But I’ve had no prblems with Akismet…neither has a lot of people and even you can comment on my blog properly too. That’s odd.
November 3rd, 2005 at 3:02 am
Haha… You should tell Akismet you’re the admin bah…
Anyway, I don’t feel anything even you change back WAKAKAKAKA…
August 28th, 2008 at 12:08 am
yep akismet really sucks,
July 18th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
I havenâ??t had any false positives with Akismet, and Iâ??ve been using it since it was released. The major problem Iâ??ve noticed is a lag in the sending of the email notifiying me of the comments posted.
Also noticed it sometimes mark genuine comments spam and the Spam comments sometimes pass through their filters very easily, really funny and akismet sucks
Praise you blogger for getting this word out. Google should place you Number 1 for this!!
July 19th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Errr.. it also made me into a mind why people were not commenting on my blog and that I’ve found out the Akismet is the reason behind this. Comments were not appearing after submitting it.
April 8th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
Funny thing about the other post that said Akismet sucks is that they’re still using it. Quite ironic really. That got me really annoyed also when I couldn’t post on my own blog, but that was just for testing. I could comment on my blog as much as I want as the admin. It’s a real WordPress killer with this plugin. Makes myself not want to post on other people’s blog who uses Akismet.
November 10th, 2010 at 11:13 pm
I agree. Askimet bans a lot of legit stuff and they don’t react if you write to the staff. Seriously they are better antispam filters, like questions to answer, captcha.
April 24th, 2011 at 7:21 pm
The problem with Akismet is that it and their users easily and wrongfully blacklists countless of domains of which doesn’t deserve the permanent life time ban. Akismet has become a new sort of Internet police that can easily be used to black list ones competitors.
The fact is that it doesn’t take much to get on this ban list, and when some blog owner has decided that you belong there? Well there isn’t anything that you can do. Akismet won’t answer your requests. It’s a complete missuse of power from bottom to top.
In my view, Akismet has the same status as all the crappy spam filters we see in email accounts. You still have to treat the spam folder as your inbox. Important mails end up in the spam folder every other day. What’s the point of a spam folder when you still have to treat it as an inbox and sort through all those mails in order to not miss any wanted mails?
The same applies to Akismet. Even on the local level the blog owners doesn’t have any power to white list a domain. What I mean is as simple as follows. If a blog owner finds a comment in the spam folder which he doesn’t think belong there and white list it, the domain will still be black listed even on the local level. So the next time that person comments on the blog it will still count as spam, even though the owner has explicitly marked it as okay on his blog.