Comments on: Akismet Sucks

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 11:21:28 +0000

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.

By: mirabelle

mirabelle — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:13:15 +0000

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.

By: SherwinJTB

SherwinJTB — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:38:11 +0000

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.

By: Ij Styles

Ij Styles — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:54:30 +0000

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.

By: Mark Andy

Mark Andy — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:00:07 +0000

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!!

By: The ASIAN Health and Medicine Forum

The ASIAN Health and Medicine Forum — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:08:05 +0000

yep akismet really sucks,

By: wong

wong — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 19:02:02 +0000

Haha… You should tell Akismet you’re the admin bah… Anyway, I don’t feel anything even you change back WAKAKAKAKA…

By: Edrei

Edrei — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:54:42 +0000

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.

By: SubKi||er

SubKi||er — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 15:29:15 +0000

Now i think you’re going to have to be my senior in WordPress

You work hard on your SPM also la…:P

By: Hisyam

Hisyam — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:39:23 +0000

use spam karma2 and bad behaviour