Slipping Through Akismet

June 28, 2007

Lately I’ve been getting chunks of spam comments that are getting through my Akismet plugin and being posted. This not only annoys me, but it has exposed a little problem in the manual Akismet workflow. I can’t see any way to mark these comments as spam for the Akismet engine because they are considered valid, posted comments by Wordpress.

The comments look like this:

Author : wyydlekzto (IP: 211.46.221.34 , 211.46.221.34)
E-mail : kquze@rorhdpv.com
URI : http://hifue.info
Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=211.46.221.34
Comment:
Thanks for this site!
<a href="http://hifue.info" rel="nofollow">hifue.info</a>

As you can see, Wordpress lovingly appends the rel=”nofollow” attribute to any links in comments to prevent those links from affecting Google PageRanks.

However, I still have to go in and manually delete these comments, knowing that by doing so I am adding nothing about these comments to the Akismet Mother Brain. Grr.

* Posted at 10:08 am.

2 Responses to “Slipping Through Akismet”

  1. jonathan
    June 28th, 2007 | 11:33 pm

    It’s simply because your blog is still the first result in a Google search for “musepack blows”.

  2. John Forsythe
    June 29th, 2007 | 12:08 am

    You might consider a different plugin.

    In the codebase for dasBlog, we have the ability to send a comment as SPAM to AKISMET for use in feeding the Mother Brain.

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