Akismet, Could They Ban Kevin Rose?
Ok Akismet says
368,184,324 spams caught so far
1,159,929 so far today
93% of all comments are spam
But Akismet doesn’t say how many false negatives they get. Let me get this straight, if I had 5000 blogs and I said that Kevin Rose was spamming me, would Akismet ban Kevin? If I blog spammed 100,000 people with the Akismet plugin on Kevin Rose’s behalf would they Ban him? I guess it’s NO… interesting test though don’t you think 
I know Shoemoney can’t comment on my blog , due to people Blog spamming his domain.
But Akismet, If I say it’s not spam why the hell don’t you listen to me, let me add a white list or something… it’s my blog !!!
Ok the rant almost over, I do understand the problems of trusting me… I’m just one person and saying that Shoemoney’s website is ok for my blog isn’t giving him a free pass on Akismet, I just want a Local one.
John Andrews has a good point about Akismet, John’s point is basically he did what I did, he scans what Akismet says is spam and pulls out what isn’t, well today like me, he noticed the amount of XSS in particular the IE7 exploit downloads (the one that launches embedded media player).
Which means you will never see a Shoemoney comment on here.. In fact I still have time before the end of the year to do evil .. hehe Maybe a Digg versus Akismet would be a cool test…
DaveN
Phantombookman 2370 days ago
Dave
I was thinking of using akismet rather than what I normally do.
I turn comments off once the post leaves the 1st page.
I tend to get between 10 and 30 comments whilst a post is fresh, though I do rank very well in the engines for old posts I found they generated little or no interest in terms of retrospective comments.
Do your older posts attract many comments ?
Just wondering whether I should change my my of operating
Regards
Rod
DaveN 2370 days ago
yer they do, and some a real comments as well
graywolf 2370 days ago
http://www.wolf-howl.comYeah I’ve had problems with shoemoney not being able to comment on my blog as well. However it also flagged stuntdubl a while back so go figure.
Phantombookman 2370 days ago
Hi Dave
thanks for that, much appreciated. Also for the info you share on the site and radio shows.
All the best
Rod
SEOidiot 2370 days ago
http://www.seoidiot.com/seoblog/Well like all systems they will always have false positives – just shows the systems working i suppose…
Richard 2370 days ago
http://www.redcardinal.ie[OT] Just listened to the Searchcast for the first time. Very funny – you guys have some laughs doing that
stu 2369 days ago
http://www.webmasterwords.comSurely you can hack the plugin code to bypass checking for comments from shoemoney or any other sites you might want to whitelist.
lucia 2146 days ago
http://money.bigbucksblogger.comI use SpamKarma extenstion with the Akismet extension module. That lets me add positive karma points to some words / domains / email addresses etc which creates a sort of weak type whitelisting. I can also give negative karma points to words/ domains etc to create a weak blacklist.
The net result is I can effectly white list anyone I want– provided they don’t suddenly start bombarding me with rapid fire comments about pharmaceuticals.
Igor The Troll 2005 days ago
DaveN Akismet has many false positives, including SearchEngineJournal.com Andybeard.eu WikiPedia.org Google.com and TravelinAsia.net, I am sure there are many more.
I have filed a complaint on their blog, but they have deleted it. This is the documentation of the complaint.
http://www.phsdl.net/phsdl-vs-akismet-complaint.php
Anyone has a problem with Akismet please let me know and I would add you to the list of plantiffs.
Igor Berger
PHSDL
Administrator
Ricky 1493 days ago
http://www.forexfreedownload.comMy website got banned on akismet and it doesn’t work on any wordpress blogs now. As soon i make a comment i shows a blank page which i have understood that it doesn’t even hit the moderation queue so i am completely clueless now. On contacting akismet see what reply did i get..
Hi,
Some bloggers consider your comments to be spam. If your comments are not published on some blogs, it is because the owners of those blogs have indicated that they believe your comments and others like them to be spam.
Kind regards,
Alex.
Firstly, what is he talking about ?? Some lame stuff. I am not a robot..god damn it and i do not spam with links or bad sites etc and about commenting i would say that everyone does that, what’s the harm in it. If we are not going to promote our site then who else would ..Akismet would ??
richard 1098 days ago
To hell with akismet.
i posted 6-7 legitimate comments on random blogs and what do you know, few days later i’m blacklisted by akismet.
I removed akismet and use captcha instead. Still removes 95% of spammers, but at least has NO false positives.
rtt 1072 days ago
http://realtechtalk.comThe other issue I have with Akismet besides false positives and the ability for people to “conspire to ban someone they don’t like”, is also what do they do with the data that is collected? Exactly what information does Akismet receive?
They have the potential to influence BLOG dynamics and also datamine most of the WordPress BLOGs and even sell that information to third parties etc…
Daniel 1006 days ago
Askimet is a stupid wordpress plugin, as everyone ban their competitors domains.
The internet will be much less spammy without askimet
Karl 978 days ago
http://www.groovytube.com.au/I seem to be having the same problem. I’m not writing spammy posts or anything, but i managed to get banned. I don’t know why, and i can see it’s a flawed system because yea, as Daniel stated, people are banning there competitors.
I wish more people did use captcha as an alternative instead, as it has roughly the same spam killing rate.