Comment Spam Trap Troubles
I’ve been doing a bit of spring cleaning on the site today. One of the things I rarely do is check the comment spam trap. Browsing through it today, I’ve noticed a couple of completely legitimate comments that were incorrectly marked as spam. They are quite old but I decided to approve them. Apologies if one of your comments got caught. I will endeavor to check it as regularly as I can. It seems that Akismet can be a bit overprotective.
On a related note, I’m going to implement a Commenting Policy as Keiron recommends. I’ll put up a page with the complete policy soon, for now refer to Keiron’s Commenting Policy page as I’m going to implement it as it is with maybe a few additions (Hope that’s OK mate?). My only addition is that comments need to be in English, although American and Australian will also be permitted 
. Apologies to the massive non-english speaking population of the world, but I can’t moderate content that I don’t understand.
I will post the full policy when I’ve finished with the copy and pasting.
July 10, 2009 6:43 pm 
Link error up there mate! You should know how to spell my surname!
Yeah that’s fine. I implemented a new spam plugin the other day and have had 3 spam comments rather than 3,000 this week – I’ll keep you posted on progress!
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Woops! Link is fixed.
Working on your own spam plugin, interesting. Akismet usually get’s it right but some kind of extra filtering options might be useful. Some stuff isn’t quite spam, but you don’t really want it in the comments. I’m getting a lot of russian comments, when I translate them they don’t seem to be spam, but the translation isn’t great so I’m not sure. Anybody else have this problem?
Do you have a notify of follow-ups plugin. Would be useful as I only came digging here as I’m about to link back to you!
It’s not my own writing it’s something else and it’s great… See my new post – that will probably trackback it’s way here in a moment!
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I do now! Hope it’s working. I’m a bit lite on plugins since the reinstall.
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