Akismet, Could They Ban Kevin Rose?
- 27th Nov 2006
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- Rant
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
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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
yer they do, and some a real comments as well ;)
Yeah 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.
Hi Dave
thanks for that, much appreciated. Also for the info you share on the site and radio shows.
All the best
Rod
Well like all systems they will always have false positives - just shows the systems working i suppose…
[OT] Just listened to the Searchcast for the first time. Very funny - you guys have some laughs doing that :)
Surely you can hack the plugin code to bypass checking for comments from shoemoney or any other sites you might want to whitelist.
I 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.
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
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