DISQUS

Camille Sourget · 1 year ago

My website is also banned from the Akismet system. I am testing your commenting system to see if this comment get banned.

Ashish · 1 year ago

Yes Camille you were marked as Spam by Akismet but i have manually un spammed your comment. I think it will help.

Cheers

James · 11 months ago

Two of my websites got banned from Askimet. Including this one that i'm commenting with. I emailed Askimet and they removed the first one.

Have you tried doing that?

Ashish · 11 months ago

You were in Akismet banned list and i manually had to un spam your comment thus your id. I think after few people do that you will not get banned by Akismet.

Free iPhone · 11 months ago

How can you tell if I am on the askimet banned list, or just if bloggers are choosing not to approve my comments?

Ashish · 11 months ago

You were in Akismet banned list and i manually had to un spam your comment thus your id. Generally, if you are banned by Akismet your messages will go under Spam folder which people don't often check. But i got the email confirmations too so i had to manually un-spam your comment.

Darrin · 9 months ago

I have been banned and have no idea why. Sent them an email to try and get unbanned, not holding my breath. It's very odd because it's not a site I comment very often with and haven't done any commenting lately. Just out of the blue my site was flagged. Not only that but it's not even in a competitive niche that you would find spammers in.

Darrin · 9 months ago

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

Broadband · 9 months ago

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

Ashish · 9 months ago

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?

AndyW · 9 months ago

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

Ashish · 9 months ago

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?

ShellMedia · 8 months ago

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.

margesh · 8 months ago

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.

Woody · 8 months ago

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.

Howie · 8 months ago

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 ??

Ashish · 8 months ago

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.

the scene queen · 7 months ago

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.

sem philippines · 7 months ago

certainly that akismet plugin is a sure pain in the neck

Tim · 6 months ago

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.