What happens if a comment makes it past akismet, and we want to tag it as spam? Doesn’t seem to be a way to get the message to akismet if this happens.
i get today many spam on my blog. the comments appear on my site, but without url and so on. in askimet the comment is there too, with url and so on. when i delete and sent the comment there, nothing happened. the comment was not deleted. on my blog i must delete the comment manualy.
What happens if a comment makes it past akismet, and we want to tag it as spam? Doesn’t seem to be a way to get the message to akismet if this happens.
Yeah, what drusoicy said. Close it, then go the akismet module and proceed from there…
i installed the extension but few problems.
i get today many spam on my blog. the comments appear on my site, but without url and so on. in askimet the comment is there too, with url and so on. when i delete and sent the comment there, nothing happened. the comment was not deleted. on my blog i must delete the comment manualy.
the api key is inside.
anything is wromg with askimet on my site. ideas?
Was the installation successful? Like I said before, you can test the combo yourself: make sure you’re logged out and create a comment with ‘viagra-test-123’ as author. This will always be considered spam by the Akismet service.
If spam comments are posted, that could mean that:
1. akismet doesn’t think it’s spam. Mark it as such and in time comments will probably be put into the moderation queue, as akismet learns from its mistakes.
2. the akismet server was down, so the check couldn’t be performed. Maybe in a later version, I’ll add a check for that, along with the option to either close or open the comment when the server is down.
Also, if you got a lot of spam and want to delete them all at once, that might be a bit too much. Happend to me once—tried to delete over a hundred comments in one go after a night of heavy spam artillery. Checked all comments, but none were deleted. Solution: batch process them. Say 30 per go. That does the trick.
and when the spam is sent to the askimet site, it disappears from the module site?
If you go to the Akismet Module page in your control panel, select all the (closed) comments, and use the “mark as spam and delete” option, then the comments are sent to the akismet service and deleted immediately after that.
All the module does is either delete or open comments, along with the proper communication with the akismet server (which is not visible to the user).
You can still use the EE-native way to open, close or delete comments, but then there’s no communication with the akismet server.
You tried the very first version too, right? Maybe there’s still a reference to that in your database which messes up things. I reproduced your error by changing the class value in the DB from ‘Akismet_check’ to ‘Akismet’. The old akismet extension is obsolete, so all references should be gone. Try and run this query from your SQL manager:
DELETE FROM exp_extensions WHERE class = 'Akismet';
That should delete the record from the database and clean things up.
Lodewijk, I’ve been looking at Aksimet & it gets a lot of very positive comments, so thanks a lot for making it available for EE!
I was just wondering if the 1.5 release of EE introduced the appropriate hooks you need for managing trackbacks via your extension/module combo, and if so if you had any plans of incorporating trackback protection into the combo?
I was just wondering if the 1.5 release of EE introduced the appropriate hooks you need for managing trackbacks via your extension/module combo, and if so if you had any plans of incorporating trackback protection into the combo?
I just checked the appropriate file for new extension hooks, but alas… Nothing there. As long as they remain absent, I won’t be able to add trackback protection to the Akismet combo.
So, dev-crew, if you can find the time to add some hooks in cp.trackbacks.php (preferably in the function receive_trackback()), that would be grrreat. Yeah.
I have been using this extension for about a week and it works amazingly well ... thank you!
I do have one question/concern ...
I am getting more and more comment spam that leaves my own URL in the URL field. IOW, my blog is at http://www.entrepreneurslife.com ... and I am getting comment spam that lists http://www.entrepreneurslife.com/ in the URL field. My guess is they do this to try and get through spam filters, and leave *their* sites for the actual comment text. Until today, I’ve been “marking as spam and submitting to akismet” without hesitation. Today, I thought that I might be shooting myself in the foot by submitting spam that includes my URL as part of the spam. If Akismet learns from new submissions, surely it is learning that m URL is part of spam. This is not good.
What I’m wondering is if the extension can be modified to strip out any references to *OUR OWN* blogs before/during submission to Akismet in order to prevent possible false positives in the future?
