UPDATE: the new GASP Anti-Spam WordPress plugin has been released and is available in the WordPress Plugin Repository.
THIS is the ALTERNATIVE TO AKISMET that provides the SOLUTION to being Flagged as a Spammer! Spread it throughout the blogosphere and your comments will work again.
Spammer of the Month Award
If you are currently flagged by Akismet as a spammer or have ever had a problem with being flagged please comment in this post. We will periodically move your links up into the body of this post so that bloggers can see how pervasive this issue already is.
We may as well make it worth you time so please include your preferred anchor text and a short description of your site.
If your blog is DoFollow using CommentLuv or KeywordLuv and you welcome new commentators who are link builders please so indicate to be added to our lists.
Contact Akismet Support to ask that you be unflagged as a spammer
These bloggers have commented in our test posts and been flagged as spammers:
- Gail from Support Bloggers June 18, 2010 at 7:14 pm Twitter: @GrowMap
- Lane Lester from website builder June 17, 2010 at 10:02 am Twitter: @coffeefandrl
- Roezer Guide to Internet Use Twitter: @roezer
There were so many more bloggers complaining about being flagged as spammers that we gave up listed them on this page and developed an Akismet alternative instead. I published it now so that when other posts are published tomorrow morning bloggers will be able to comment in this post too.
MORE ABOUT AKISMET on GROWMAP:
- Akismet is Deleting Comments Bloggers Never See
- Find Out if Akismet Has You Flagged as a Spammer
- Configuring Akismet: How to Turn Off Akismet Automatic Comment Deletion
- Business Friendly Akismet Free DoFollow Blog List
BLOGGERS POSTING THEY’VE BEEN FLAGGED BY AKISMET:
- Blog Template Designer ~ BlogsWithWings ~ My Comments are Not Showing Up Because Akismet is Blocking Me
- DragonBlogger ~ Get Off Akismet Spam List
- Zemalf ~ How to Stop Your Blog Comments From Being Blocked by Akismet
- AndyBeard ~ Akismet False Positives and SpamKarma Configuration (Published May 31, 2007 – this problem has been around a LONG time!)
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Hello,
It seems that i have also been flagged by akismet. I just contacted them as recommended on your website, will see if this solve the problem !
Thanks
Marc
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I don’t even want to know why I’m banned, and I’m not going through the trouble of getting unbanned. I’m just chalking it up to a bad plugin. Those happen.
In any case the blogs that I comment on all use CommentLuv. It’s something I’ll have to invest in. In the meantime I’ll take your plugin over Askimet any day of the week.
Twitter: GrowMap
December 5, 2012 at 9:10 am
Thanks Kinya,
You know there is a free CommentLuv plugin you can use for now, too? Watch for the CommentLuv Premium promotions and pick it up when you can because it appears that the anti-spam in it is stronger and it has a lot of other great features.
Banning intelligent commenters is part of the plan to reduce our ability to create a better world. Using CommentLuv and GASP are currently the two best ways to keep them from silencing us.
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No I didn’t know that. Thanks a lot for telling me. I’ll install it on my blogs today.
Well, I’ll throw my hat in the ring here. I’ve had this problem since about 2007 when I’d comment on friends’ blogs and my comment would never show up! Sure, the topic of my website deals with marketing schemes and spam, but I’m usually poking fun at spammers and giving tips to avoid scams!
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my site is banned . .how to unban it?
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Why bother? Just avoid websites using Askimet.
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October 5, 2012 at 12:23 am
Hi Mirabelle,
Good idea. Commenters can look for the check box with various wording that indicates our GrowMap anti-spambot plugin is in use.
Though I have been meticulously careful about giving relevant comments bus has still be banned by Akismet. I wrote to them about this issue but their reply was not at all encouraging. They replied it is not our decision to ban you but the blogger’s and he can still see your comments even if it is not appearing in the moderation on the page but what happens in reality is contrary to their statement. I don’t know what to do about it. I am totally stuck.
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Twitter: GrowMap
August 7, 2012 at 8:15 pm
Hi Ivana,
While I consider REAL review sites very useful, many bloggers will err on the side of over-caution and click spam because they are afraid of allowing a link to a bad neighborhood. There are many phony review sites and borderline review sites that promote the top three commissions they can earn without regard to which are actually the best products.
It is not easy to determine whether a review site is just doing what maximizes their income or actually writing real reviews.
Even if a blogger sells nothing, if they comment regularly they WILL get flagged by Akismet as spammers. Sites that do sell something or have ads are pretty much even worse off.
There are a growing number of blogs – like this one – that do not use Akismet. You can recognize them by the check box asking some variation of check if you’re human. They and CommentLuv bloggers are more likely to approve your comments – but any blogger can and does delete a lot of comments because they’re in a gray area. Your site is one of those.
Read my tips in the post I’ve put in CommentLuv in this reply and consider creating relationships with specific blogging communties or guest posting on related blogs. Never rely entirely on one type of incoming link because that is the number one factor in what blogs lose their Google traffic.
I had a big debate about their insistence that the blogger can see all comments. There are two things that happened in a blog that has Akismet back when I last tested (which hsa been some time ago so they MAY have changed this):
1) If they have a particular box checked, any comment left in a blog post that is more than 30 days old WILL be instantly deleted and the blogger will never see it. If you get a blank white screen that is an indication that probably happened. You can try to contact the blogger to confirm that.
2) If the blogger does not have that box checked, your comment will be put into the spam section along with 100s to 1000s of objectionable spam comments left by bots. Most bloggers do NOT review all those comments because it takes so long and many professional spammers’ comments seem very real until you copy and paste them into a search engine and see dozens or hundreds of the same comment already indexed.
Akismet is a poor solution to the spam issue and bloggers need to care more about not slamming the door in the face of their commenters than they care about being totally spam free.
GrowMap would love you to read ..For Bloggers Who Hate Comment Spam
Akismet may have flagged me and I don’t know what to do if it has, contact them as you say I suppose….
Thanks for the useful post!
Twitter: GrowMap
July 19, 2012 at 8:50 am
Yes, but they may or may not help you. Their position is sometimes that businesses who comment are spammers. That is why I encourage bloggers to support small business and have tips on how to comment.
Hi there
My 2 websites were marked as spam, although my comments are always relevant, on topic and not 1 shallow line
please help me to unban them
http://www.redx.co.il
Thanks!
Twitter: GrowMap
June 24, 2012 at 1:57 pm
Hi David,
You can contact Akismet directly and ask them to unban you. Sometimes that works. A better way is to encourage blogs you comment on to switch to GASP. Because your sites are not in English if you comment in blogs that are many will just keep flagging your comments as spam.
I am marked as spammer. My comments not appearing for moderation. I also tried to comment in a blog of mine and my comments goes to spam automatically.
URL marked as spam : http://www.onlinegamesland.org
It is a flash games site. I have done some backlinks to other sites , but only with whitehat methods… I contact their support 3 days now with 2 mails , but no news… They do not care probably.
Yep, I’m flagged. In fact my very first comment EVER did not go through and it was not a spam comment. I can’t even get akismet to reply to me and I’ve sent several emails. I read somewhere that my website could be in a bad neighborhood on a shared host so maybe I’ll see if they can switch my ip on my server to a different one.
Twitter: GrowMap
April 11, 2012 at 4:28 pm
Hi Jessica,
I’m hearing from others in the diet niche that are having problems with getting warning emails from Google and de-indexed. I suspect that entire niche may be slapped as a bad neighborhood soon because there are so many spammy sites in it.
I encourage bloggers to stop trying to make money building that type of site and build a high quality blog for a specific geographic location. When you can reach a local audience you can generate an ethical income running ads and doing online marketing for local businesses. See the post I’ve put in CommentLuv in this reply.
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I removed Askimet from my blog as soon as I noticed this problem. I installed another anti-spam, that works perfectly well and I installed Commentluv because I don’t think somebody’s a spammer just because he/she wants to add a URL to a comment (unless it’s www. sexyrussianbabes.com or www. earnamillionwithoutworking.net”).
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Oh no, sexyrussianbabes.com actually exists! Arggh! :-/
Sorry.
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April 11, 2012 at 4:30 pm
LOL…I’m relieved YOU weren’t sexyrussianbabes dropping the link! Just put a space in a domain if you want to make sure it doesn’t hotlink.
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Yes that’s a good idea
Serves me well to assume nobody would come up with such a silly URL.
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March 26, 2012 at 11:28 am
Now I come to know that my comments also catching by Akismet
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I’ll try this. Hey, it works! Many thanks Catwoman
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Often it’s not the IP address, it’s your email or URL.
If your message is blocked, I would use a different and/or URL and tell the owner of the blog in your comment to get rid of askimet, because it is unreliable.
If he/she has comment luv. Add your URL, let comment luv find your last post, remove the URL and publish. The comment luv link won’t be blocked by askimet.
Twitter: GrowMap
August 18, 2011 at 3:06 pm
Interesting strategy, Cat Woman. I had not thought of that. We should spread the word.
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It happened with me and I have submitted my problem but still the problem is there. Please guide me further how can I get rid of this.
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At times I really find it difficult to figure out how Akismet really figures out a spam post. Lot of times, there is no reply on the page or whatsoever as to what happened to my post. This leaves me really frustrating at times.
thanks,Steve.
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July 21, 2011 at 3:29 pm
I always read an article or a blog before I leave a comment. I do not see a white screen after I comment, but still, lots of comments are not posted. I’m not sure if they are going to spam or what exactly going on. You can actually see a difference between a real comment and a spam, but just about anybody can become a victim of a spam!?
[If you want to get more comments published don't hang a URL at the end of them. Many bloggers will automatically delete as spam any comment that includes any old unrelated link at the end. The other issue is that the topic of your blog is in a gray area between legitimate blog and possible bad neighborhood. Most bloggers will opt for 'better safe than sorry' and will either delete your comments or remove your link.
There is no consensus among spammers regarding what spam is exactly, but your comments are likely to be considered potential problems by most bloggers. Read that post for details.]
There has been so many complains about Akismet these days. Comments kept being blocked despite of good comments done. Both bloggers and readers get affected by the incompetence of their services. But so far I don’t hear any complains bad about GASP, so far you’re on the top of my list. Keep it going!
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June 30, 2011 at 1:52 am
When Akismet did this,it really was not good. I was disappointed with and changed to your Anti-spam Plugin.
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