Comments on: Are you banned by Akismet for spaming?

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:27:28 +0000

Thanks for this post, I realized I was getting banned to and had no idea why. I think its because I hired a “seo” company to do some work for my website, and apparently they did a terrible job. Hopefully I can get “unblocked” and have everything go back to normal soon.

By: bouncycastle

bouncycastle — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:24:18 +0000

please help me out too, I am very annoyed at these stupid people for automaticly blocking as spam, please vist hack my wii dot net and nixta dot co dot uk and leave comments and i will mark as NOT SPAM , if that helps you too,

By: bouncycastle

bouncycastle — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:24:18 +0000

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:45:43 +0000

I was bored during class today and spent about 4 hours reading and commenting on blogs, fast forward 3-4 hours, I am now banned from akismet somehow I sent them an email, hopefully that works, but in the meantime does anyone else know other suggestions?

By: portable solar panels

portable solar panels — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:44:51 +0000

i already try contacting akismet an nothing happen…T_T

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By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 29 May 2009 02:56:13 +0000

I am also experiencing the “white screen” thing since some time. I never did any spamming and have no idea, why this is happening.
Thanks a lot for this article. I'll contact askimet.

By: sem philippines

sem philippines — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:46:47 +0000

certainly that akismet plugin is a sure pain in the neck

By: the scene queen

the scene queen — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:44:10 +0000

I think it's pretty sad that Akismet is written this way. Don't ever tell them that you think it's a flaw in their software though; that's a good way to get flamed.

By: Ashish

Ashish — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:24:46 +0000

I understand the frustration involved with comment blocking and do understand how irretating this thing is. If you look above you will notice that i have written few points which will help your comments not marked as SPAM.

As far as site promotion is concerned, you don't have to type a link in your comments as your name always become a link to your website.

Use the above tips and see if your comments are not going to SPAM anymore. Ask your friends to un-spam your comments from admin. More people do that the higher probability is for you to be false positive.

By: Howie

Howie — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:21:59 +0000

My 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 conatcting 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 ??

By: Woody

Woody — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:05:26 +0000

I found your post because I was wondering too if I am banned or not on a few sites. I would imagine that if you submitted your own comment to another site you owned it would show if you were banned or not??? I guess that is my next try.

By: margesh

margesh — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:14:50 +0000

The problem you have described i truly valid and i have also faced many times. When you submit your comments the screen goes blank, but when i dug more about this issue i found that this is more like a wordpress error.
If you are banned by Akismet then you will not see a blank screen rather you will see a comment box which will not display your comment (your comment will reside inside SPAM messages)
Many people contacted Akismet to resolve this issue but unfortunately they can't. The only option you have is to ask people to un-ban your comment, more people do this and this will make you false positive and there is a good chance to get unbanned in Akisment.

By: ShellMedia

ShellMedia — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:02:46 +0000

I believe I've also been flagged as spam...

I'll read a post from a dofollow blog, and then write a relevant comment pertaining to the post. When I submit the comment, I get a white screen. It just stays at wp-comments-post.php

I will attempt to contact Akismet to resolve this issue but I'm skeptical, as I'd imagine many people who ARE spamming also attempt to get unblocked when this happens.

By: Ashish

Ashish — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:47:32 +0000

Basically, there is are few points which must be considered before commenting i.e.

1. Don't leave links in your comments unless its extremely necessary (your link is always there in front of your name anyways)
2. Don't write comments which are invaluable to the users i.e. (Nice post thanks)
3. Don't write comments which are talking in no relation to the article (A health related article should not have comment about some marketing site etc.)

Yes, nobody is supposed to comment on 100's of websites in a day and if Akismet finds this it treats it as SPAM for sure. Let me know if this helps?

By: Ashish

Ashish — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:43:09 +0000

Well, Yes my account was banned by Akismet too somehow, but my friend circle kept putting me as NOT SPAM which helped Akismet to unban me as false positive. Your account don't seem to be in my SPAM list so it seems fine.
Moreover, i would recommend not to leave links in your comments on other blogs which is the main cause behind getting banned. Let me know if this helped?

By: AndyW

AndyW — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:54:36 +0000

This has now happened to me!!

Did you ever manage to get “unbanned” by Akismet?

Can you “de-spam” this message if it is sitting in your spam bin

By: Broadband

Broadband — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:14:00 +0000

I guess websites that are banned must have gone over the limit set by akismet.

By: Darrin

Darrin — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:33:46 +0000

FYI the site to check for being banned by akismet is http://podz.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/moved/